6. Out of how many of these trials did the confederates give the wrong answer (critical trials)?
14
11
12
13
5
7. How did the confederates give their answers
Out loud
On paper
8. How many conformed in the critical trials?
75%
34%
37%
22%
15%
9. During the Critical trails, How many confederates conformed at least once?
75%
25%
10%
50%
100%
10. How many did not conform at all?
50%
25%
100%
35%
75%
11. When asked why they conformed, what was the dominant answer?
Fear of being ridiculed, even though they thought the other
They genuinely felt their answers were correct
They were giving demand results
12. The investigation would not be likely to happen in real life, therefore is low in ecological validity
True
False
13. Participants were protected from the potential psychological stress of the experiment.
False
True
14. Participants were decieved
True
False
15. The Asch (1951) study has also been called a child of its time (as conformity was the social norm in 1950’s America). The era of individualism, ‘doing your own thing’, did not take hold until the 1960s.
