Social Influence Practice Test

The main idea is that consistency from a minority can nudge the majority to reconsider their judgments, even if the overall shift isn’t large. In Moscovici’s color perception experiments, a consistent dissenter challenged the group’s perceptual answer. This persistent challenge caused some participants to doubt their own view and, in some cases, genuinely change their private judgment to align with the minority. The key takeaway is that minority influence works through confidence and persistence, and it can lead to real, though relatively small, changes in opinion. So the best answer is that it could cause a small percentage to adopt the minority view. The other options overstate the impact (a large effect), deny the existence of influence (disproving minority influence), or claim it has no real-world relevance, none of which fit the actual pattern found in the study.