You Are Required to Participate in a Perception Experiment and So

question 258

Multiple Choice

You are required to participate in a perception experiment and so you join seven other students seated in a room. You are shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is interested in studying:

• A) conformity.
• B) bystander apathy.
• C) social loafing.
• D) diffusion of responsibility.

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