Conformity -Asch Flashcards
Asch 1951 aim
Asch wanted to investigate whether people would conform to the majority in situations where an answer was obvious
who were the participants
50 male students USA
what were the participants told they were participating in
a vision test
who did the procedure consist of
1 naive participant and 7 confederates
confederates agreeing before hand what their responses would be
what was the procedure
line judgement task
each person said which comparison line was most like the target line A,B,C
the answer was always obvious
when did the real participant give their answer
last
how many trials were conducted
18 trials
what are the critical trials
12 trials were the confederates gave wrong answers
Asch also did a
control conditions with no confederate
how many conformed to the majority view
32% conformed
how many conformed during the critical trials
75% of participants conformed once during them
how many never conformed
25%
when being interviewed what did most participants say
they did not believe the answers they gave but gave them out of the fear of being ridiculed
