In a Series of Experiments,why Did Solomon Asch (1951,1956)ask Participants

question 108

Multiple Choice

In a series of experiments,why did Solomon Asch (1951,1956) ask participants to judge the lengths of lines,which were clearly different from one another?

• A) Asch believed that Muzafer Sherif's experiments were fatally flawed.
• B) Asch wanted to study conformity in unambiguous situations.
• C) Asch believed that people would conform in their judgments.
• D) Asch wanted to study conformity in ambiguous situations.
• E) Asch wanted to study obedience in a lab setting.

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