When Solomon Asch (1955)conducted an Experiment in Which Six Confederates

question 150

Multiple Choice

When Solomon Asch (1955) conducted an experiment in which six confederates gave the wrong judgment about the lengths of lines and in which a seventh confederate gave the correct judgment,participants' normative conformity dropped drastically.These findings support the importance of _______ in producing conformity.

• A) a unanimous group
• B) authority
• C) normative pressures
• D) immediacy
• E) strength

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