It Is 1951, and You Are Participating in a Perception

question 160

Multiple Choice

It is 1951, and you are participating in a perception experiment. You join seven others seated in a room. You are shown a 25-cm test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. You hear the choices of the others before you make your choice. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is studying

• A) bystander apathy.
• B) conformity.
• C) groupthink.
• D) social loafing.

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