Asch AO2 quiz

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WJEC as-level psychology core study revision of Asch
Georgia Leech
Quiz by Georgia Leech, updated more than 1 year ago
Georgia Leech
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Question 1

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What was the setting of Asch's research?
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  • Lab setting
  • Field setting
  • Natural setting

Question 2

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This environment enhances the chance that participants will display demand characteristics, therefore making the results less valid
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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What measures did Asch take to combat these demand characteristics?
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  • Real participant was always second to last.
  • Confederates were instructed to give some correct answers.
  • Participants who became suspicious were excluded.
  • Confederates only gave the wrong answers

Question 4

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Why is Asch's study criticised for lacking ecological validity?
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  • Because the sample was not representative.
  • The participants took part in a study where the task had little consequence for getting it wrong.
  • The participants had to answer out loud.
  • The real participants did not know the other participants.

Question 5

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Larsen (1974) repeated Asch's experiment and found that conformity was much higher.
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Perrin and Spencer (1980) found that out of 396 trials, only how many participants conformed?
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  • 7
  • 1
  • 384
  • 200

Question 7

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The reason for this inconsistency is due to the fact that Asch conducted his research in the 1950's in a time of lowered conformity.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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Why was the sample unrepresentative?
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  • It was androcentric
  • It was endocentric
  • It was self-selected
  • It was generalisabile

Question 9

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What were the ethical issues of the research?
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  • Deception and psychological harm.
  • Informed consent and privacy.
  • There were no ethical issues.

Question 10

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To support this, Bogdonoff et al (1961) found that participants in an Asch like task demonstrated hight arousal (e.g. high blood pressure), indicating anxiety.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 11

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Who replicated Asch's study in the UK in the late 1970's and found that only one student conformed in 396 trails.
Answer
  • Doms and Avermet (1981)
  • Perrin and Spencer (1980)
  • Smith and Bond (1988)

Question 12

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Doms and Avermet (1981) believed that Asch's results may be more realistic than those of Perrin and Spencer (1980) because...
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  • science students would be more confident in their ability to estimate the line length.
  • art students would be more confident in their ability to estimate the line length.
  • they believed that Perrin and Spencer had more realistic results.

Question 13

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Smith and Bond (1988) conducted a ........ and compared findings within individualist vs. collectivist societies.
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  • meta-analysis
  • correlational research
  • archival research

Question 14

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This finding develops Asch's research.
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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Who found that individuals with a high internal locus of control were less conformist than those with a low internal locus of control?
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  • Nicholson et al (1985)
  • Lalancette and Standing (1990)
  • Burger and Cooper (1979)

Question 16

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Does this support, develop or limit Asch's study?
Answer
  • Support.
  • Develop.
  • Limit.
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