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The document summarizes an experimental psychology laboratory report on Solomon Asch's conformity experiments from 1951. The experiment aimed to study how group pressure can influence individual opinions. Participants were shown line lengths and asked to identify matches, with confederates intentionally giving incorrect answers on some trials. Over one-third of real participants then conformed to the false group response at least once. Having even one confederate provide the right answer significantly reduced conformity. The experiments demonstrated people's willingness to ignore reality and conform to group opinions.

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Guico - Asch Conformity Experiment (Laboratory Report)

The document summarizes an experimental psychology laboratory report on Solomon Asch's conformity experiments from 1951. The experiment aimed to study how group pressure can influence individual opinions. Participants were shown line lengths and asked to identify matches, with confederates intentionally giving incorrect answers on some trials. Over one-third of real participants then conformed to the false group response at least once. Having even one confederate provide the right answer significantly reduced conformity. The experiments demonstrated people's willingness to ignore reality and conform to group opinions.

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Experimental Psychology Laboratory Report


Academic Year 2022-2023

NAME: Guico, Jem Mariel S. DATE OF THE


EXPERIMENT/ACTIVITY: 01/28/23
YEAR/SECTION: 2nd Year – BS Psychology DATE OF SUBMISSION: January 28, 2023

Title: The Asch Conformity Experiment

Abstract/
Problem: The Asch Conformity Experiment is conducted to know if an individual’s
opinions are influenced by a social group. In this study, we will be able to
understand how and why people conforms if they are in a group through
the methods that Solomon Asch used in different subjects. After many
trials or experiments conducted, Asch found out that people were willing
to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the
rest of the group.

Introduction:
Solomon Asch is a 20th century psychologist known for his experiments in
social conformity, the Asch Conformity Experiment in 1951. The
tendency of a person to conform to the unspoken rules or practices of the
social group to which they belong is known as conformity in psychology.
The extent to which people conform to or defy social norms has long
caught the attention of researchers. Asch was interested in examining how
group pressure may cause individuals to conform even when they were
aware that the rest of the group was wrong. The Asch conformity
experiment was designed to show the influence of group conformity.

Design and
Procedure: To be able to know if a group affects an individual’s opinion, Asch has
confederates or participants who were aware that they were being
watched, so they pretended to be a regular participants along with the real
subject. To be able to determine whether the real subject’s behavior has
changed because of the actual experimental participants, the confederates
will act in a specific ways.

Each experiment has a naïve participant in a room with a lot of


confederates. There were multiple students who were a part of Asch’s
experimental condition. The confederates were all told to give wrong
answers. The confederates along with the real subjects were told to take
part in a ‘vision test’, wherein they are presented with different lines and
guess what line has the same length to the line in left.

Confederates gave wrong answers in 12 of the 18 trials in the


experimental condition, which Asch referred to as the "critical trials,"
which were designed to test whether participants would change their
response to match the answer of the other members of the group.

Course Outline in Experimental Psychology 1


In a control condition, a control group of 37 people was also included in
the experiment. The control group was instructed to individually write
down the right match so that the length of the lines could be reliably
determined by the average person. These findings show that participants
made exceptionally correct line judgements, selecting the right response
99% of the time.

Subject/s:
123 male individuals took part in the initial experiment. A group of five to
seven confederates was formed for each participant. There were a total of
18 trials, and for 12 of them, the confederates gave false answers. The
"critical trials" were these 12 trials and the group of 37 people are called
the “control condition”.

Result:
After the results of trials were combined, the findings revealed that
participants tend to agree with the confederates who give incorrect
answers around one-third of the time. Asch also observe if the number of
people present in the group has an impact. The results revealed that if
there is one person, there is not effect with the real subject’s response.
When there is two or more confederates, the significant level of
conformity is high.

According to Asch, conformity was significantly reduced when one


confederate provides right response while the others provides wrong
response. Only 5% to 10% of the participants in this situation followed
the group’s responses, depending on how often the ally answered
correctly.

These findings imply that the desire to fit in and the belief that others are
more intelligent or knowledgeable can both have an impact on
conformity.

 The more people there are, the more conformity there is. Once the
number of participants exceeds four or five, however, there is little
difference.
 As the task gets harder, conformity also rises. People look to
others for guidance on how to react when they are uncertain.
  When other group members have a higher social position,
conformity rises. People are more likely to follow the group when
they believe that the other members are more powerful, influential,
or knowledgeable than they are.
 Studies have also revealed that having at least one other group
member's support reduces conformity.

Course Outline in Experimental Psychology 1


Course Outline in Experimental Psychology 1

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