Conformity: Asch's roles

Question 1

What did they do?

Answer 1

Judged lengths of lines

Question 2

Procedure

Answer 2

Confederates deliberately gave wrong answers to see if participant would conform

Question 3

Findings

Answer 3

Naive participants conformed in 36.8% of trials

25% never conformed

Question 4

Variations

Answer 4

Conformity increased increased up to group size of 4
Dissenter reduced conformity
Conformity increased when task was harder

Question 5

Evaluation

Answer 5

Child of its time
Artificial situation and task
Limited application of findings
Findings only apply to certain situations
Ethical issues

Question 6

Other research

Answer 6

Jelly beans- Jenness

Question 7

Group size

Answer 7

Asch increased size of group by adding more confederates which increased until it levelled off when majority was greater was 3

Question 8

Unanimity

Answer 8

Extent to which all members of group agree, when majority agreed produced greater conformity in naive participants

Question 9

Task difficulty

Answer 9

Line judging task more difficult when becomes harder to work out. Conformity increases as naive assumes majority to be right