PSYC 222 clasic study 2 - Asch and milgrahm

There is one participant and the rest are confederates

will the participant go with the correct answer or will they conform

cover story

• they are testing visual perception.

influence

• normative

goal

• to avoid punishment or to seek approval

results

• 75 percent conform at least once

• 38 percent of judgements are incorrect

acceptance

• public

group size

• conformity increases with group size until about 7 then plateaus

Asch line study

cover story

type of social influence

what is the goal of the test

what population were the participants

DV - number of people that conform

what is the acceptance

does group size matter

roles

• teacher = participant

• experimenter = confederate

• learner = confederate

cover

• we are looking at the effects of punishment on learning

procedure

• participants are told they are free to leave and will still be paid

• learner is scripted to say they have a heart condition

• when the learner gets a word pair wrong the teacher shocks them

• eventually the learner says they want to stop. the teacher typically turns to experimenter and they say to keep going

  • typically if the learner kept going at this point they continued to go all the way

results

• 65 percent give maximum shock

DV

• will people respond to a authority figure

Milgram’s shock experiment

what were the roles

cover story

explain the procedure

results

DV

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