Asch Also Tried to Rule Out Alternative Hypotheses for His

question 156

Multiple Choice

Asch also tried to rule out alternative hypotheses for his findings. He examined whether group norms affected participants' perceptions of the lines, and he then conducted his original study but asked participants to write, rather than call out, their responses. In this condition, he found the answers to be right more than 99 per cent of the time. Which of the six principles does this example demonstrate?

• A)Extraordinary claims
• B)Replicability
• C)Occam's Razor
• D)Correlation versus causation

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