Summarize the Asch study on conformity
What will be an ideal response?
Asch was actually interested in studying independence but ended up observing the conditions under which people conformed. In a simple yet elegant experiment, he recruited subjects to participate in a study on visual perception. Their task was to identify which line among a group of three matched a test line in length. The trick was that others who participated were actually confederates of Asch who would provide what was actually the wrong response. Asch found that 75 percent of his college subjects capitulated to the pressure to conform to the group at least once. Subsequent research found that certain conditions decreased conformity, such as the presence of just one dissenter.
You might also like to view...
A researcher is interested in how school exercise programs can lead to better weight management in high school students. All the high school seniors are forced to run one mile a day before lunch. At the end of the semester, the researcher looks at weight management (gain/loss) and how fast each student ran his or her miles. He finds that kids who ran faster lost the most weight and assumes he should make students run faster next year. Unfortunately (for the researcher), most of the kids who ran fast were also in cross country. What type of problem does this present?
a. third-variable b. directionality c. baseline d. reversal
Which of the groupings in Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence includes the ability to size up situations and solve everyday problems?
A) Analytic B) Creative C) Practical D) Intrapersonal