Task 12: The Asch conformity experiment
The Asch conformity experiment
...Experiments led by Solomon Asch of Swarthmore College asked groups of students to participate in a "vision test." In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to the confederates' behavior. Each participant was put into a group with 5 to 7 "confederates" (people who knew the true aims of the experiment, but were introduced as participants to the naive "real" participant). The participants were shown a card with a line on it, followed by another card with 3 lines on it labeled A, B, and C. The participants were then asked to say which line matched the line on the first card in length. Each line question was called a "trial". The "real" participant answered last or next to last. ...
What happened next?
See the complete article here; for the answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
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Now answer the following question:
What is the minimum number of cohorts required to achieve the maximum influence of conformity?
...Experiments led by Solomon Asch of Swarthmore College asked groups of students to participate in a "vision test." In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to the confederates' behavior. Each participant was put into a group with 5 to 7 "confederates" (people who knew the true aims of the experiment, but were introduced as participants to the naive "real" participant). The participants were shown a card with a line on it, followed by another card with 3 lines on it labeled A, B, and C. The participants were then asked to say which line matched the line on the first card in length. Each line question was called a "trial". The "real" participant answered last or next to last. ...
What happened next?
See the complete article here; for the answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
Read the complete article.
Now answer the following question:
What is the minimum number of cohorts required to achieve the maximum influence of conformity?