At a large outdoor celebration, a few people in an audience of several thousand begin clapping a repeated rhythm. Most audience members would not clap this way if they were watching alone.
Explain how the clapping could spread through the audience and why the group setting may encourage others to join in.
43 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 4.1 Key Concepts, covering 4.1.1 Conformity, 4.1.2 Collective and crowd behaviour, and 4.1.3 Obedience. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.