In His Line Judgment Studies,Solomon Asch (1955)discovered That as the Number

question 76

Multiple Choice

In his line judgment studies,Solomon Asch (1955) discovered that as the number of unanimously incorrect confederates exceeded four,increasing numbers of such confederates had little additional effect on participants' conformity.These findings lend support to which of the following assumptions of social impact theory?

• A)As immediacy decreases,conformity decreases.
• B)Strength mirrors the law of diminishing returns in economics.
• C)As impact increases,conformity increases.
• D)An increase in strength will inevitably lead to an increase in conformity.
• E)Ironically,as strength increases,conformity decreases.

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Definitions:

Gym Visits

A count of the number of times an individual attends a gym or fitness center within a specified period.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Poisson Random Variable

Represents the number of events occurring within a fixed interval of time or space, assuming these events happen at a constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Expected Value

The expected value is the long-run average value of repetitions of an experiment it represents, often used in probability and statistics.