variables affecting conformity- Asch

Question 1

description of Aschs variables

Answer 1

1. unamity- changing the study so that not all majority members give the same wrong answers. The presents of an ally lead conformity rates to drop to 25%
2. group size- 1-2= no effects, 3= 32%, 4,5,6= rising, 7= began to decrease
3. task difficulty- more ambiguous, less confidence, higher conformity rates

Question 2

evidence against- low temporal validity

Answer 2

Perin and Spencer
many years later only 1/396 people conformed
“child of its time”
low temporal validity

Question 3

evidence against- low ecological validity

Answer 3

conducted in a laboratory
ppts couldn’t question confederates
doesn’t generalise to real life situations

Question 4

evidence against- deception

Answer 4

deliberately deceived ppts
many ppt reported feeling embarrassed when they found out abt confederates
not possible to give full informed consent
goes againsts ethical code of conducts
however, he wouldn’t be able to obtain realistic results without deception

Question 5

evidence for- high internal validity

Answer 5

conducted in a lab
extraneous variables where controlled
high internal validity

Question 6

evidence for- replicable

Answer 6

everything was standardised
could change variables ( group size)