Question

In a variation of his standard experiment, Solomon Asch (1957) found that when participants could write their responses on a piece of paper, conformity dropped dramatically. This finding indicates that participants exhibited ________, not ________, during the standard experiment.
a. public compliance; private acceptance
b. private acceptance; public compliance
c. logical reasoning; mindless
d. conformity mindless conformity; logical reasoning

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is: a. Public compliance; private acceptance.

Explanation:

Public compliance can be understood as the social phenomena that occur when a group of people superficially agree on a particular thing, usually to get social approval.

Private acceptance can be understood as a more personal change in attitude that individuals experience when they are fundamentally convinced of something they may have not seen before, but do not express it loudly and socially.  

In this particular case, when the participants of the standard experiments were able to write their responses on a piece of paper, conformity dropped dramatically. This means that during the experiments the level of public compliace were high while the levels of private acceptance were low.

In conclusion, the correct answer is a. Public compliance; private acceptance.