Asch (1955) Opinions & Social Pressure - Procedures

Procedures of Asch's study of opinions and social pressure (1955).

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Describe Asch's participants
123 male undergraduates from 3 colleges in America.
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What were they asked to take part in?
A vision test with a group of 6-8 other people.
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Unbeknownst to the participants, the rest of the group were actually what?
Confederates.
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The 'naive participant' was always seated where?
Last or second to last.
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1 of the three lines was the same length as the 'standard' line. What was th difference in length between the standard line and the two incorrect lines?
About 2cm.
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What did Ash do after the trials?
Debriefed the participants, and interviewed them on their responses and behavior.
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What variations of this study did Asch do?
He varied the size of the group from 1-15 people; he introduced a 'truthful' partner; he looked at the effect of a dissenting inaccurate partner (a partner who disagreed with both the confederates and the naive partner.
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What were they asked to take part in?

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A vision test with a group of 6-8 other people.

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Unbeknownst to the participants, the rest of the group were actually what?

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The 'naive participant' was always seated where?

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1 of the three lines was the same length as the 'standard' line. What was th difference in length between the standard line and the two incorrect lines?

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