Asch's Conformity Experiment Quiz

In his base line study, Asch aimed to study (1 Point)

• Conformity

• Obedience

During the line experiment Asch had people in the experiment who pretended to be participants but were actually working for him. What do we call these people?

• confederate

• bystander

• observer

• participant

What were the findings of the experiment?

• 75% of participants conformed

• Participants conformed 75% of the time

• 36.8% of participants conformed

• Participants conformed 36.8% of the time

When interviewed after the experiment, it was concluded that most participants conformed because of...

• Normative social influence

• Informational social influence

In the group size variation, having three confederates in the group caused the conformity rate to rise to what %?

• 31.8%

• 25%

• 40%

• 50%

In another variation, Asch found that having a dissenter in the group helped participants to act more independently because it broke the group....(one word)?

• unanimity

• harmony

• consensus

• agreement

When Asch made the tasks more difficult, what type of social influence caused conformity?

• informational

• normative

• coercive

• persuasive

Because the participants knew that they were in a study, they might work out the aims of the study and change their behaviour. This issue is known as?

• demand characteristics

• observer bias

• placebo effect

• sampling error

Fiske argues that the group in the study was not like groups in real life (they weren't very "groupy"). This means that the results can't be ......................... to groups in everyday life.

• generalised

• ignored

• restricted

• applied

In what type of culture would the experiment obtain different results (higher conformity rates)?

• collectivist

• individualist

• egalitarian

• authoritarian