In a Study,five People Are Asked to Taste Test Three

question 33

Multiple Choice

In a study,five people are asked to taste test three dishes,one of which tastes like garbage.They must then judge which dish was the best.However,four of the people are confederates and are told to always say that the garbage dish is the best.The real participant (the fifth person) is then asked to give his or her judgment.This study is done in both an individualistic and a collectivistic culture.Based on the results obtained using Asch's paradigm across cultures,what do you expect to happen in this case?

• A)Participants from the individualistic culture would most likely not say that the garbage dish is the best one.
• B)Participants from both cultures would be equally likely to say that the garbage dish is the best one.
• C)Participants from the individualistic culture would be more likely to say that the garbage dish is the best one if the first four participants were friends.
• D)A lot of participants from the individualistic culture would say that the garbage dish is the best one,but even more participants from the collectivistic culture would say the same.
• E)No participants from either culture would say that the garbage dish is the best one.

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Definitions:

Preoperational Thought

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged 2-7 years exhibit symbolic thinking but lack the ability for logical operations.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development during which children gain the ability to think logically about concrete events.

Decentered

In developmental psychology, a term referring to the ability to take multiple aspects of a situation into account, seeing things from more than one perspective.

Memory Strategy

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