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Asch's Study
Aim To investigate the extent social pressure from a majority group had on a person to conform. Procedure 123 American male undergraduates Tested in groups of: 5 confederates and 1...
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Asch's Variation Studies (Affecting Variables)
Asch performed additional variation studies used to discover certain factors affecting conformity, including: Group size Unanimity of Majority Difficulty of Task Group Size There i...
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Conformity
Conformity is a change in behaviour or opinions due to real or imagined pressure from a person/group of people. Herbet Kelman 1958 claims that there are there are three different w...
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Evaluating Asch's Study
Not all participants conformed when the majority gave unanimous answers Type: Limitation Not all participants conformed when the majority gave unanimous answers. 67% of participant...
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Evaluating Conformity
Research support for normative influence Type: Strength Study: Linkenbach and Perkins 2003 Found adolescents exposed to the message 'the majority of their age peers don't smoke' we...
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Social Influence
Deutsch & Gerrard 1955 argues that there are two reasons as to why people conform. This is known as the dual process model need, how, type . Informational Informational social infl...
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Zimbardo's Study
info AO3 is not finished. Aim To investigate the extent people would conform to social roles. Procedure Setup a mock prison in the basement of the psychology department at Stanford...
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