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AQA A-Level Psychology: Conformity - Statistics

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Question Answer % Correct
Who conducted the research into conformity? Asch
98%
When task difficulty increased, what happened to conformity? Increased
83%
When group size increased, what happened to conformity? Increased until a point - When there were 3 confederates conformity increased to 30%.
83%
When unanimity was broken, what happened to conformity? Decreased - Conformity dropped from 33% to 5.5%.
74%
What are the three variables of conformity? Task difficulty
57%
What are the three variables of conformity? Group size
55%
When was the study conducted? 1956 / 1950s
53%
What percentage of participants didn't even conform once? 25%
51%
What are the three variables of conformity? Unanimity
49%
What was the overall conformity rate? 36.8 / 37%
36%
How many male US undergraduates were in the sample? 123
34%
AO3: What are the main STRENGTHS of Asch's study? Conformity rates were high - 75% of participants conformed at least once and other studies have found similar results.
28%
AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of Asch's study? Demand characteristics - Participants may have pretended to conform after guessing the true aim of the study.
25%
AO3: What are the main STRENGTHS of Asch's study? Replicable - Asch could control extraneous variables and establish a cause and effect relationship because it was a lab study.
23%
AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of Asch's study? Lacks ecological validity - Lab studies are artificial so findings can't be generalised to real life.
15%
AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of Asch's study? (HINT: Bond, 2005) Cultural differences - Conformity in individualistic cultures was 25% whereas in collectivist cultures it was 37%.
13%
What effects the results of task difficulty according to Lucas (2006)? Self-efficacy - If the participant has high self-efficacy then they are more independent and confident in themselves.
13%
AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of Asch's study? Lacks temporal validity - In the 1950s conformity rates were higher because the US was in the grip of McCarthyism.
11%
AO3: What are the main STRENGTH of Asch's study? Convincing confederates - Mori (2010) repeated his experiment using polarising glasses and found similar results.
9%
AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of Asch's study? (HINT: Bond, 2005) Limited range of group size - The maximum group size tested was 9.
6%
AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of Asch's study? Participant variables - Asch ignored that some people are more likely to conform than others.
0%
AO3: What are the main STRENGTHS of Asch's study? Post-study interviews - Participants admitted they weren't pretending and didn't want to be the odd one out/assumed the others were right.
0%
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