Variables Affecting Conformity

Question 1

What are the 3 variables

Answer 1

Task difficulty
Group size
Unanimity

Question 2

What happens to conformity rates as the size of the majority group increases

Answer 2

Increases

Question 3

The size of the group stops having an effect once the group reaches…

Answer 3

A certain size

Question 4

1 real participant, conformity was at

Answer 4

3%

Question 5

2 confederates, 1 real participant, conformity was at

Answer 5

13%

Question 6

3 confederates, 1 real participant, conformity was at

Answer 6

32%

Question 7

When did conformity plateau after

Answer 7

3 confederates to 1 ppt

Question 8

What does group size suggest about conformity?

Answer 8

The size of the majority does affect conformity but only to a point

Question 9

When was conformity at 3%

Answer 9

1 ppt to 1 confederate

Question 10

When was conformity at 13%

Answer 10

1 ppt to 2 confederates

Question 11

When was conformity at 32%

Answer 11

1 ppt to 2 confederates

Question 12

What does unanimity mean?

Answer 12

Complete agreement from a group about an answer or viewpoint

Question 13

In the original Asch study, all confederates gave the same wrong answer and conformity was at

Answer 13

37%

Question 14

When a confederate gave the correct answer, conformity dropped to

Answer 14

5.5%

Question 15

When did conformity drop to 5.5%

Answer 15

When a confederate gave a wrong answer throughout

Question 16

When a lone confederate gave an answer both different to the ppts and the rest of the confederates, conformity dropped to

Answer 16

9.9%

Question 17

When was conformity at 9.9%

Answer 17

When a lone confederate gave an answer different to the confederates and the ppt

Question 18

Asch concluded when a dissenter breaks the groups unanimous position, conformity

Answer 18

Decreases

Question 19

Conformity ………… when task difficulty increases

Answer 19

Increases

Question 20

Asch made the stimulus and comparison lines more similar in length so that the correct answer was less obvious, making the task

Answer 20

Harder

Question 21

Asch made the stimulus and comparison lines more similar in length so that the correct answer was less obvious, making the task harder, this did what to conformity rates?

Answer 21

Increases

Question 22

Task difficulty suggests that what explanation of conformity plays a greater role as the taks gets harder and why?

Answer 22

ISI - when situations are unclear, we are more likely to look to others for guidance

Question 23

As the right answer becomes less obvious, what happens to us?

Answer 23

We lose confidence in our own ability and are more likely to conform

Question 24

RTS

Answer 24

Lucas et al

Question 25

What did Lucas et al do?

Answer 25

Ask student to solve easy and hard maths question.

Question 26

What were the students given in Lucas et al’s study?

Answer 26

Three other answers form other ‘students’.

Question 27

What did Lucas et al find?

Answer 27

Students conformed more often when problems were difficult than easy

Question 28

How does Lucas et al support Asch?

Answer 28

Suggests that when the task is harder, conformity increases

Question 29

What has Lucas et al said about Asch view of conformity? Why?

Answer 29

That it may be more complex than Asch suggests.
Participants with high confidence in maths abilities conformed less on hard problems than those with low confidence

Question 30

What did Lucas et al find to affect conformity?

Answer 30

Individual level factors that interact with situational variables

Question 31

Why Asch’s research limited accounting to Lucas et al? (L)

Answer 31

He didn’t research the role of individual level factors

Question 32

What 2 types of bias does Asch have

Answer 32

Gender
Culture

Question 33

Why is Asch gender bias?

Answer 33

All male sample
Cant generalise to women who care more about social relationships so more likely to confirms.
Weakens external validity

Question 34

Why is Asch culture bias?

Answer 34

Only conducted in America (western, individualistic)
Cant generalise to non wester, collectivist e,g china who care about good of group so more likely to conform and agree it’s group to be liked regardless of variables. Suggested by Bond and smith
Weakens external validity