Conformity Ashcs Research

Question 1

Procedure of Ashs research

Answer 1

Confederates gave wrong answer to see if participants would conform

Question 2

What percentage of naive participants conformed on the trials?

Answer 2

36.8%

Question 3

How many naive participants never conformed?

Answer 3

25%

Question 4

How did the size of the group affect conformity?

Answer 4

Conformity increased up to a group size of four

Question 5

How did the difficulty of the task effect conformity?

Answer 5

Conformity increased when the tasks were harder ISI

Question 6

Limitation who found less conformity?

Answer 6

Perrin and Spencer in 1980 found less conformity then 1950s

Question 7

What was the task?

Answer 7

Standard kind and three comparison lines

Question 8

Was the task artificial?

Answer 8

Demand characteristics played along with the task as that’s what the researcher wanted

Question 9

Who did Ash use?

Answer 9

American men

Question 10

How may it apply to only certain situations?

Answer 10

Participants had to answer out loud and may want to impress strangers however conformity is often higher with friends

Question 11

Ethical issues?

Answer 11

Naive participants were deceived as they though the others were participants however the study was beneficial