It Is 1951, and You Are Required to Participate in a Perception

question 12

Multiple Choice

It is 1951, and you are required to participate in a perception experiment. You join seven others seated in a room. You are shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is studying

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

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