In Asch's Studies of Conformity, Subjects

question 211

Multiple Choice

In Asch's studies of conformity, subjects

• A) were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to a stranger.
• B) became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice.
• C) indicated which of three lines matched a "standard line" in length.
• D) were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simple questions.

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