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Pedro's ________________ is excellent. We know he will make a good choice.
What is judgment?
The card shown to participants had one of these on the left and three on the right.
What are vertical lines?
The comparison lines on each card were labeled with these three letters.
What are A, B, and C?
Many real participants conformed because they feared this reaction from the group.
What is ridicule?
All participants in the original study were of this gender.
What are males?
Solomon Asch researched the _____________ of the group on the individual. He wanted to know how groups affectedtheir members.
What is influence?
This is the number of real participants in each experimental session.
What is one?
When answering alone, participants made errors less than this percentage of the time.
What is 1 percent?
The study found that conformity occurred even without this type of pressure, only perceived pressure.
What is external (or actual/obvious) pressure?
The real and fake participants all belonged to this type of institution.
What is the university?
Sometimes you just need to be __________, even when people question your ideas. It's important to believe in yourself.
What is confident?
This is the decade when Solomon Asch conducted his famous conformity experiments.
What are the 1950s?
This percentage of participants conformed and gave the incorrect answer at least once.
What is 75%
Some participants experienced errors at this level, truly believing the majority's incorrect answers were right.
What is the perceptual level?
There was none of these pressures for conforming and not conforming in the study.
What are rewards and punishment?
The ______________ of players want Yusef as their team captain. More than half of the team voted for him.
What is majority?
Out of 18 trials, the fake participants intentionally answered this many cards incorrectly.
What is 12?
This is the total number of trials each participant went through.
What is 18?
This type of social influence happens when we assume others are better informed than we are.
What is informational social influence?
Real participants may have conformed because they thought this is what this person wanted them to do.
Who is the experimenter?
The _______________ appearance of the car is fine. The outside was not damaged at all.
What is external?
This is what participants were told the study was about.
What is visual perception (or a perceptual study)?
This percentage of participants conformed every single time the group gave the wrong answer.
What is 37 percent?
This type of social influence occurs when we alter our behaviors to fit in with those around us.
What is normative social influence?
These three demographic factors were not considered in the original conformity studies.
What are gender, culture, and different ages?