We Can Conclude That Participants in Sheriff's Study Exhibited Private

question 24

Multiple Choice

We can conclude that participants in Sheriff's study exhibited private conformity rather than public conformity because

• A)when retested without their fellow group members,participants reverted to their original estimates.
• B)they would report their group's normative estimate when asked to respond aloud,but not when asked to respond in writing.
• C)they continued to use their group estimates when retested alone one year later.
• D)the task was too easy for people to demonstrate public conformity.

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