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the aim of the study was to look into normative social influence and wanted ro see if people would conform to a group's wring answers. |
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what was Aschs study called |
line of judgment task |
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what was the task the participants were asked to complete? |
they were shown a series of lines of varying lengths that were labelled a,b and c, the firth line was labelled x. they were asked which line resembles the x line. |
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how many naive paripants were there in the group? |
one the rest were confederates |
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what are confederates? |
these are partipants that know the real aim of the study and work for the researchers. real partipants think the confederates are real. |
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how were confederates used is Aschs study? |
they were told to give the wrong answer |
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how did partipants react to the confederates? |
After hearing the confederates give the wrong response partipants had to answer. 75% of the partipants conformed at least once by giving the wrong answer. |
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how did size effect the conformity levels? |
the greater the number of people the more likely partipants will conform. upper limit of 7 |
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how did the presence of another non conformist effect conformity? |
conformity drop to near 0 |
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did public or private nature of the responses effect conformity? |
yes- public responses conformity occured more often. when in private they were less likely to conform |
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how did differculty effect conformity? |
the harder the task, the more similar in length the lines were the higher conformity |
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what are the benefits to the study being set in a lab? |
variables could be controlled experiment could be repeated easily minimied risk of extraneous variables |
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was the use of an artifical situation a pro or con? |
con meant the study had low ecological validity and couldn't be generalised to other settings. |
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were the participants decived? |
yes as they didn't know the other partipants were confederates |
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what part did confidence play in Aschs study? |
the more confident the partipants seemed the less likely they were to conform. didn't give into group pressure |
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what did Perrin and Spencers study with engineers find? |
they were less likely to conform due ro the fact that they were more confident in their decision making. |
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what did Wiesenthal et al find? |
participants who were confident in their ability to complete a task were not as likely to conform. |
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what did Eagly and Carli (1981) find out about gender? |
before people felt that women conformed more males and females differed most in studies where audiences created group pressure. |
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what did eagley find about gender? |
Women are more likely to conform because they don't like group conflict. Men are less likely to conform because they are expected to show independence and assertiveness. |
