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