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Question 19

Read the article below.

"In a school quiz, pupils answered out loud in a class of 30. When a question was about a topic nobody had studied, most pupils gave whatever answer the first few pupils had given. On easy questions, far fewer pupils changed their answer to match the others."

Identify two social factors that could explain the pupils' behaviour in the article.

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2.2 Social influence Questions

  1. IGCSE
  2. /Psychology
  3. /2.2 Social influence

50 exam-style questions on Oxford AQA IGCSE Psychology 2.2 Social influence, covering 2.2.1 Factors affecting conformity, 2.2.2 Conformity: Asch, 2.2.3 Obedience and Agency theory, 2.2.4 Dispositional factors in obedience, 2.2.5 Factors affecting bystander intervention, 2.2.6 Studies of bystander behaviour, and 2.2.7 Collective behaviour in crowds. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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