Question

Dr. Pulaski decided to replicate Solomon Asch's classic experiment of conformity to group pressure. If his results are consistent with those of the original research, he is likely to find that: A. approximately three-quarters (76 percent) of the subjects will conform to the group's judgment on at least one critical trial. B. roughly two-thirds (65 percent) of the subjects will conform to the group's judgment on at least one critical trial. C. fewer than 10 percent of the subjects will conform to the group's judgment on the critical trials. D. only one-third of the subjects will conform to the group's judgment on at least one critical trial.

Answer 1

Answer:

A. approximately three-quarters (76 percent) of the subjects will conform to the group's judgment on at least one critical trial

Explanation:

Solomon Asch's conducted an experiment to determine how social pressure from a majoritywould affect a person to conform. In psychology, conformity is the likelihood of a person to follow the behavior of the social group an individual belongs to. In each experiment, a naive student was placed in a room with several other confederates who agreed in advance what their responses would be when presented with the line task without the real participant knowing. After line task was presented,  the confederates began answering the questions correctly. However eventually began providing incorrect answers based on how they had been instructed by the experimenters. They were 18 trials and the confederates provided 12 wrong answers. The purpose of this experiment was to see if the participant would conform to that of the others in the group.

The result at the end of the experiment showed that approximately three-quarters (76 percent) of the subjects will conform to the group's judgment on at least one critical trial.

Answer 2

Answer:

(A). approximately three-quarters (76 percent) of the subjects will conform to the group's judgment on at least one critical trial.

Explanation:

In Solomon Asch's experiment, he tried to determine the extent to which people conformed to group pressure.

In his experiment, he set up a group of eight where he planted seven confederates to mislead a test subject by intentionally providing wrong answers to certain questions, to see if the test subject would conform with the confederates.

Asch conducted 12 trials and found out that about 75% of test subjects conformed with confederates at least once, and provided wrong answers themselves.