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Question 21

In a classroom task, four students all give the same wrong answer before Leo answers. Leo usually copies the majority, but this time one confident student disagrees with the others first, and Leo gives the correct answer.

Explain why Leo did not conform on this occasion.

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5.1 Social influence Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Psychology
  3. /5.1 Social influence

40 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Psychology 5.1 Social influence, covering 5.1.1 Key terms, 5.1.2 Factors affecting bystander intervention, 5.1.3 Conformity to majority influence, 5.1.4 Obedience to authority, 5.1.5 Behaviour of crowds, and 5.1.6 Preventing blind obedience. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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