Asch's conformity study

1. What type of social influence would cause the conformity rates to change if the situation is ambiguous? (13)
5. How many confederates did it take to make the conformity rate raise to 37%? (5)
6. In Asch's conformity study, the majority of the participants were ____ . This left only one true participant (12)
8. The genuine participant _____ with the confederates 36.8% of the time. (6)

1. Asch looked at whether the task difficulty would affect conformity. By increasing the difficulty of the line-judging task, he found that conformity ____ (9)
2. Asch also investigated the presence of a non-conforming person on the rate of conformity. What would this affect? (9)
3. What type of social influence would cause the conformity rates to change if you are trying to avoid rejection? (9)
4. A variable investigated by Asch was group size - wanted to see if the size of the group was more important than the agreement of the group. Through this he found what kind of relationship? (11)

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