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Who was Asch's sample
123 male undergraduate students
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what was the group dynamic
pp were tested individually with 6-8 confederates
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what did the confederates on the first two trials do
give the right answer
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what happened after these first few trial
confederates were instructed to give the wrong answer
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on how many trials did confederates give the wrong answer
12/18
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what was key about the confederates' responses
they all had to give the same wrong answer
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How many participants never conformed
25%
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how often did the pp give the wrong answer
36.8% of the time
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What is the 'Asch' effect'
the extent to which someone will conform even if the situation is unambiguous
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why did participants say they conformed
Normative social influence- -to avoid rejection
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What were asch's variation
1. group size 2. unanimity 3. Task difficulty
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Why did Asch vary group size
He wanted to know what was more important, the size of the group or the agreement of the group
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What happened when there were 3 confederates
conformity rose to 31.8%
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What happened after this number
Made little difference
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what does this suggest about the impact of group size on conformity
that a small majority is not sufficient for influence but there is no need for a majority more than 3
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how did asch test the importance of unanimity
He presented a dissenting confederate
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What did the presence of a dissenting confederate do to conformity
conformity was reduced by 1/4
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What happened to conformity when the task was more difficult
conformity increased
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What is this research support for
Informational social influence
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Who recreated Asch's study on engineering students
Perrin and Spencer
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in perrin and spencers study, how many conformed
one in a total of 396 trials
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what does this suggest about asch
Child of it's time, not historically generalisable, conformity is not a fundamental feature of human behaviour
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What is this issue with Asch's design
artificial situation, artificial task - lack of mundane realism 'Asch's groups were not very groupy'
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what else limits asch
only men, same culture
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What ethics compromise aschs research
Deception
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