Social Influence Aschs Study

Question 1

Social influence
Aschs baseline study
-Task

Answer 1

Shown card of 3 lines varying lengths n another card with 1 line.told to say sat around a table has same length as the second card.obvious

Question 2

Social influence
Aschs baseline-
Conditions

Answer 2

All confeds ,1 naive-called out 2nd to last.confeds gave wrong unanimous on 12/18 critical trials.these 12 called “critical trials.” ,volunteer sampling technique
7 students in each test
Asked to take part in a visionary test

Question 3

Social influence
Aschs baseline-
Results

Answer 3

Naive gave wrong on 36.8% of critical trials.25%no fonform on any trials.75%conform atleast once.

When interviewed ,said knew right ,conformed to avoid ridicule

Question 4

Social influence
Aschs baseline
-Low pop val

Answer 4

123 male American students
Gender biasy
Women more conform NSI
Not able to compare

Question 5

Social influence
Aschs baseline-
High control

Answer 5

Experimental method,IV DV,cause ,effect.

Question 6

Social influence
Ash’s conformity
Artificial task

Answer 6

A limitation of Asch’s research is that it has low ecological validity.
E Participants knew they were in a research study and may simply have gone along with what
was expected (demand characteristics). The task of identifying lines was relatively trivial and
therefore there was no reason not to conform. The task of making judgements about the
length of lines with total strangers does not reflect real life conformity
In addition, according to Fiske (2014), ‘Asch’s groups were not very groupy

Question 7

Social influence
Ash’s conformity
Ethics

Answer 7

) Ethical Issues
P A limitation of Asch’s research is that there are ethical issues with his procedure.
E Asch deceived his participants because they were not aware that the other participants were
confederates this means that they could not provide full informed consent.
E This is a limitation because it would go against the current BPS ethical guidelines for
conducting psychological research.
Further E However, psychologists would argue that the deception was necessary because if participants
knew the true aim they may have shown demand characteristics and therefore deception
helps to increase the validity of the findings about confo