Solomon Asch Exp Flashcards
Who? In Solomon as he exp
He was a polish gestalt psychologist. In 1951.
Aim- Solomon
To look at how the exp was conducted to look at how the pressure from a majority group in social pressure could effect a likelihood to conform.
To see if the real participants would comply under pressure.
Who took part? Solomon
50 males took part.
What was it? Solomon
Vision task.
Line judgement task.
Each had to give an opinion on the line they favoured.
Results Solomon
Results: Asch measured the number of times each participant conformed to the majority view. On average, about one third (32%) of the participants who were placed in this situation went along and conformed with the clearly incorrect majority on the critical trials.
Over the 12 critical trials about 75% of participants conformed at least once, and 25% of participant never conformed. In the control group, with no pressure to conform to confederates, less than 1% of participants gave the wrong answer.
Conclusion- Solomon
Conclusion: Why did the participants conform so readily? When they were interviewed after the experiment, most of them said that they did not really believe their conforming answers, but had gone along with the group for fear of being ridiculed or thought “peculiar”. A few of them said that they really did believe the group’s answers were correct.
Apparently, people conform for two main reasons: because they want to fit in with the group (normative influence) and because they believe the group is better informed than they are (informational influence).
