Asch

Question 1

what was the aim of Asch’s study?

Answer 1

to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could effect conformity

Question 2

summarise Asch’s procedure

Answer 2

1) real Pt was place 6th in a row of confederates
2) Pt had been told that the study examined perceptual judgements
3) all completed a visual task answering from first to seventh seat (visual task=matching standard line to its counterpart)

Question 3

what did the results of Asch’s study show?

Answer 3

ISI and NSI

Question 4

what were the results of Asch’s study?

Answer 4

conformity was 37%
5% conformed every time
25% never conformed

Question 5

what did the confederates do in Asch’s study?

Answer 5

gave 12/18 wrong answers
6 answers wrong for a long line
6 answers wrong for a short line

Question 6

what was the control group of Asch’s study?

Answer 6

tested individually

Question 7

how many Pt’s were there?

Answer 7

123 male students

Question 8

what is a confederate?

Answer 8

an actor who is in on the real experiment and acts under the demand of the researcher

Question 9

what were the 3 variable which changed the effect of conformity in Asch’s study?

Answer 9

difficulty of task
size of majority
unanimity

Question 10

how did changing the difficulty of the task in Asch’s study effect conformity?

Answer 10

harder lead to increase (ISI)

easier lead to decrease (less likely to look for conformation, more confident in own beliefs)

Question 11

how did changing size of the majority in Asch’s study effect conformity?

Answer 11

(no. of confeds)

small group lead to decrease (not a sufficient amount of influence)

larger group lead to an increase

Question 12

what are the different %’s for no. of confederates on rate of conformity?

Answer 12

1 confederate = 3%
2 =13%
3 = 33%
4 =35% optimum group size