Normative Social Influence (NSI) - Asche Flashcards
finish the sentence: person conforms because of their …. to be accepted by and …. to a group.
NEED / BELONG
finish the sentence: because belonging to the group is ….
REWARDING
finish the sentence: maybe because the group has … to punish and … those who don’t fit into the line.
POWER / EXLUDE
finish the sentence: people with NSI feel the need to be ….
LIKED
NSI leads to what type if conformity?
compliance
what year was Asche’s study?
1951
what experimental method did Asch use?
lab
Asche’s sample consisted of?
50 male college students from america
how did Asche obtain his ppt?
through volunteer sample
ppts in Asche’s study were told that they were taking part in what?
they were told they were taking part in a vision test
what type of TASK (as in what were the ppts actually doing) did Ache give his ppts?
line of judgement task
Ache placed real naive ppts into a room of … confederates whoa agreed in advance
seven
the real ppt was …. and was led to believe that the other seven people were also real …
DECEIVED / PPTS
the real ppts always sat where?
second to last
in turn, each person had to say out loud which line ( A, B or C) was most …. the …. line in …
LIKE / TARGET / LENGTH
The correct answer was always …. ( Asch’s study is considered to be UNAMBIGUOUS)
obvious
each ppt completed 18 trails and the …. gave the same …. answer on 12 trails, called c…. trails
CONFEDERATES / INCORRECT / CRITICAL
Ache wanted to see if the real ppt would … the the …. view, even when the answer was clearly incorrect.
CONFORM / MAJORITY
when considering Ache’s study what acronym do we use for evaulation?
GRAVE
what does GRAVE stand for?
Generalisability, Reliability, Application, Validity and Ethics
what ethical issue surround Ache’s study?
ppts were DECEIVED, they were told it was vision test
Is Ache’s study consider to be generalisable, explain?
Asch conducted a study on 50 male American college students and therefore research is considered ethnocentric as it presumes all cultures will act the same.
Also in more collectivist countries, conformity is higher therefore results do not give a universal explanation
is Ache’ study considered to be reliable?
the study was in a lab (the IV is being manipulated and the DC is measured) where extraneous variables were controlled, this therefore makes the study reliable.
