Asch - NSI - explanation for conformity

Question 1

Aim?

Answer 1

to investigate the degree to which individuals would conform to a majority who gave wrong answers

Question 2

How many participants?

Answer 2

123 American male students

Question 3

What were they told the experiment was about?

Answer 3

visual perception

Question 4

What were individual participants placed in?

Answer 4

groups with 7-9 others sat either in a line or around a table

Question 5

What were the other participants?

Answer 5

stooges

Question 6

What was the task?

Answer 6

to say which comparison line A, B or C was the same as a stimulus line on 18 different trials

Question 7

How many of the trials were critical trials and what were they?

Answer 7

12 - stooges gave identical wrong answers and real participants answered last/second to last

Question 8

Control group?

Answer 8

of 36 participants who were tested individually on 20 trials

Question 9

What was the controls group error rate?

Answer 9

0.04%

Question 10

Conformity rate on 12 critical trials?

Answer 10

32% to wrong answers

Question 11

How many conformed to at least one wrong answer?

Answer 11

75%

Question 12

How many conformed to all wrong answers?

Answer 12

5%

Question 13

What are judgements of individuals affected by? (Conclusion)

Answer 13

majority opinions even when the majority are wrong

Question 14

What are there big individual differences with?

Answer 14

amount to which people are affected by majority influence

Question 15

What has Asch’s method become?

Answer 15

a paradigm - accepted way for studying conformity

Question 16

1 participant tested at once meant?

Answer 16

-time consuming

Question 17

What was the situation?

Answer 17

unrealistic so lacks mundane realism

Question 18

Why was Asch’s study unethical?

Answer 18

it involved deceit

Question 19

How did it involve psychological harm?

Answer 19

stress through disagreeing with others

Question 20

What weren’t the confederates?

Answer 20

trained actors therefore participants may of been aware

Question 21

Why was it not representative?

Answer 21

male students so cant be generalised