Research Into Variable Affecting Conformity

Question 1

Group size

Answer 1

Research shows the conformity increases as the size of majority influencing person increases but there comes a point where further increase in size doesn’t affect conformity

Question 2

Unanimity

Answer 2

What degree the members are in agreement with each other affects conformity rates and have been found to decline when majority influence isn’t as unanimous as majority doesn’t agree asch found that with a confederate who didn’t conform the conformity rate dropped to 5.8

Question 3

Task difficulty

Answer 3

Conformity increase when task difficulty increase as the right answers become less obvious therefore confidence in own judgement tends to drop an increase of task difficulty such as more similar line length participants were more likely to conform to wrong answer as they were unsure

Question 4

Supporting evidence Lucas et al

Answer 4

Maths problem