Module 14: Forms of Collective Behavior
Once you have worked your way through the material on the various forms of collective behavior, you are ready to
distinguish between the different types of collective behavior. To do so, t ype or select the text from the Answer Bank and drag and / 8 pts drop each of the phrases into the unshaded boxes (category) below. Read this tutorial to learn how to drag and drop items in Microsof
Word. Once you are satisfied with your answers, save your assignment as a Word document (.doc) and upload it to the assignment area in Blackboard. Answer Bank
1. The Boston Tea Party was a culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act because they believed it violated
their right to no taxation without representation. In 1773 demonstrators boarded the ships and threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor destroying an
entire shipment of tea.
2. Urban legends 3. Pet owners, returning from their Florida vacation, flushed their baby alligators down the toilet when they started to get too big. There is now a thriving
colony of alligators living in the sewer system of New York. 4. Mass hysteria 5. Puritan colonists in the New World were seized by the belief that Satanism existed in their midst. A few pre-teen girls began to have fits unlike epileptic
fits or any natural disease. They concluded that these girls had been “seized by the Devil” who had been summoned by Devil worshipers. As a result,
people were brought to trial in the now famous Salem Witch Trials resulting in the deaths of 25 citizens.
6. Unfounded information that people spread quickly. 7. A temporary pattern of behavior that spreads rapidly, catches people’s attention and generally lasts only a short time. 8. Panic Form of
Collective Behavior Definition
The condition of being so fearful that one
cannot function rationally and may even flee. Riot Example
The 1938 radio dramatization of Orson Wells’ The War of the Worlds was
believed by many to be true. Some people are reported to have hidden in
their cellars or gotten in their cars to flee the invading Martians. Violent crowd behavior directed at people or
property Rumor Elvis Presley has been spotted and is alive.
Intense, fearful, anxious reaction to a real or
imagined threat by large numbers of people that can cause physical symptoms.
Fads or Fashions Flash Mobs or Twitter Postings A story with an ironic twist that sounds
realistic, but is false. They may be funny,
horrifying or just plain weird.
