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Quiz by Georgia Leech, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Georgia Leech
over 9 years ago
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Question 1
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What was the setting of Asch's research?
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Lab setting
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Field setting
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Natural setting
Question 2
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This environment enhances the chance that participants will display demand characteristics, therefore making the results less valid
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- True
- False
Question 3
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What measures did Asch take to combat these demand characteristics?
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Real participant was always second to last.
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Confederates were instructed to give some correct answers.
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Participants who became suspicious were excluded.
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Confederates only gave the wrong answers
Question 4
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Why is Asch's study criticised for lacking ecological validity?
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Because the sample was not representative.
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The participants took part in a study where the task had little consequence for getting it wrong.
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The participants had to answer out loud.
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The real participants did not know the other participants.
Question 5
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Larsen (1974) repeated Asch's experiment and found that conformity was much higher.
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- True
- False
Question 6
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Perrin and Spencer (1980) found that out of 396 trials, only how many participants conformed?
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7
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1
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384
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200
Question 7
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The reason for this inconsistency is due to the fact that Asch conducted his research in the 1950's in a time of lowered conformity.
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- True
- False
Question 8
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Why was the sample unrepresentative?
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It was androcentric
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It was endocentric
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It was self-selected
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It was generalisabile
Question 9
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What were the ethical issues of the research?
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Deception and psychological harm.
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Informed consent and privacy.
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There were no ethical issues.
Question 10
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To support this, Bogdonoff et al (1961) found that participants in an Asch like task demonstrated hight arousal (e.g. high blood pressure), indicating anxiety.
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- True
- False
Question 11
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Who replicated Asch's study in the UK in the late 1970's and found that only one student conformed in 396 trails.
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Doms and Avermet (1981)
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Perrin and Spencer (1980)
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Smith and Bond (1988)
Question 12
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Doms and Avermet (1981) believed that Asch's results may be more realistic than those of Perrin and Spencer (1980) because...
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science students would be more confident in their ability to estimate the line length.
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art students would be more confident in their ability to estimate the line length.
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they believed that Perrin and Spencer had more realistic results.
Question 13
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Smith and Bond (1988) conducted a ........ and compared findings within individualist vs. collectivist societies.
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meta-analysis
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correlational research
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archival research
Question 14
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This finding develops Asch's research.
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- True
- False
Question 15
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Who found that individuals with a high internal locus of control were less conformist than those with a low internal locus of control?
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Nicholson et al (1985)
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Lalancette and Standing (1990)
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Burger and Cooper (1979)
Question 16
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Does this support, develop or limit Asch's study?
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Support.
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Develop.
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Limit.
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