Asch AO1 gap fill

The method used in the study was a __________ experiment.

lab

The design of the study was __________

repeated measures

Participants in the study consisted of groups of ____, with only one __________ participant in each group.

seven or eight male students, real

The task involved showing participants a stimulus line (S) and then three other lines (A, B, and C), asking them to identify which line matched the stimulus line. The real participant answered __________ or __________

last, second to last

The total number of trials in the study was __________.

18

The number of critical trials in the study was __________.

12

In the critical trials, confederates had been primed to give the __________ answer.

same wrong

The percentage of incorrect answers in the control trials was __________.

0.7%.

The percentage of incorrect answers in the critical trials was __________.

37%.

The percentage of participants who conformed at least once was __________.

75%.

The percentage of participants who conformed on every critical trial was __________.

5%.

The study concluded that __________ had taken place as naïve participants conformed to the group to avoid rejection.

Normative social influence

Some participants reported being unaware they gave incorrect responses, indicating that __________

informational social influence also occurred.