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Name:Class:"Asch Experiment "by Fred the Oyster is licensed under CC BY ExperimentBy Saul McLeod2008 Conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch, the Asch Experiments were a series of laboratoryexperiments intended to demonstrate how individual opinions are influenced by a you read, takenotes about what leads people to conform to group yourself in the following situation: Yousign up for a psychology Experiment , and on aspecified date you and seven others whom youthink are also participants arrive and are seatedat a table in a small don't know it at the time, but the others areactually associates1of the experimenter, andtheir behavior has been carefully scripted. You'rethe only real experimenter arrives and tells you that thestudy in which you are about to participateconcerns people's visual judgments. She placestwo cards before you. The card on the leftcontains one vertical line. The card on the rightdisplays three lines of varying experimenter asks all of you, one at a time, to choose which of the three lines on the right cardmatches the length of the line on the left card.
B. Solomon Asch was an influential social psychologist who proved that human behavior is significantly impacted by groups. C. The Asch experiment showed that people's individual perceptions can be influenced by the perceptions of a larger group. D. Study subjects in the Asch experiment were tricked into believing that their
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