The Asch Study

Test on the Asch Study into social pressure and conformity

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What was the aim of asch's study?
To investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform
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How many Participants did Asch use?
123
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What sort of experiment did he use?
Lab
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How many pp's and how many confederates where there
1pp, 6 confederates
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How may trials were there?
18
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How did the confederates give their answers
Out loud
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How many conformed in the critical trials?
37%
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During the Critical trails, How many confederates conformed at least once?
75%
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How many did not conform at all?
25%
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When asked why they conformed, what was the dominant answer?
Fear of being ridiculed, even though they thought the other
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Comments

zainab

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very good that really helped me to see how much i know about asch's experiment thanks for putting this up :D

MrsMacLean

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A very useful quiz with a variety of questions - ideal for checking how much you know before revision so that you can really focus in on what you need to do!

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