To investigate the effect a majority would have on the answers of an unambigious task
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How many participants took part in the original study?
123 American male undergraduates
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How many confederates were there in each condition in the original study?
Between 6 and 8
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Where would the participant sit in the row of confederates?
Last or second to last
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In how many trials did the confederates give incorrect answers?
12/18
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How many answers given by participants were incorrect?
37%
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How many participants never conformed at all?
25%
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How many participants conformed at least once?
75%
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What is distortion of judgement?
They began to doubt that they were correct
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How was Asch's study reliable?
He used a standardised procedure, so his findings could be replicated
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How did the study lack external validity?
The set up was artificial and lacked mundane realism
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Who found that participants in an Asch-like study showed greatly raised levels of automatic arousal (linked to stress)?
Bogdonoff et al (1961)
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(Fill in the blanks) (a)_____ ___ _____ did a meta analysis of (b)___ studies and found that women are more conformist than men. This suggests that Asch's study is guilty of (c)____ ____.
(a)Eagly and Carli / (b)145 / (c)beta bias
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Card 2
Front
How many participants took part in the original study?
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123 American male undergraduates
Card 3
Front
How many confederates were there in each condition in the original study?
Back
Card 4
Front
Where would the participant sit in the row of confederates?
Back
Card 5
Front
In how many trials did the confederates give incorrect answers?
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