SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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Question
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how an individual agrees with the majority, even if the majority is wrong
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how an individual disagrees with the majority, even if the majority is right
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the tendency to adapt to the people around
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a person obeying a person of authority even if the action is wrong
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Detailed explanation-1: -Asch (1956) found that group size influenced whether subjects conformed. The bigger the majority group (no of confederates), the more people conformed, but only up to a certain point.
Detailed explanation-2: -The experiments revealed the degree to which a person’s own opinions are influenced by those of a group. Asch found that people were willing to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the rest of the group.
Detailed explanation-3: -Across all these papers, Asch found the same results: participants conformed to the majority group in about one-third of all critical trials. Asch found that the presence of a “true partner” (a “real” participant or another actor told to give the correct response to each question) decreased conformity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Evaluation of Asch Asch’s test of conformity, a line judgement task, is an artificial task, which does not reflect conformity in everyday life.