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Question
Answer
How many participants were there?
123
What gender were the participants?
male
Where were participants from and what were they?
American undergraduates
Each participant was tested individually with 6-8 [___]
confederates
In each trial there was one standard line and how many comparison lines?
3
On how many of the 18 trials did confederates give the wrong answer?
12
Out of these critical trials, how often did participants conform? (%)
36.8%
What percentage of participants conformed at least once
75%
Is this "Asch effect" an example of normative or informational social influence?
normative (NSI)
Asch changed the amount of confederates and found conformity fell to [___%] when there were only 3?
31.8%
Asch tested the impact of unanimity by giving participants an "ally" who would disagree with the confederates, which decreased conformity to [___%]
25%
Asch increased the difficulty of the task, making the lines more similar in length. This caused conformity to increase because of normative or informational social influence?