AQA Psychology A Level Revision

Asch wanted to investigate whether people would conform to a majority even when the task was obvious 123 American undergrads participated in the study, being split into groups of 5-7, with only one person being the true participant and the rest being confederates that surrounded the participant who sat second to last within the group. They were asked to complete a "Vision test", where they were given a line and had to find another line that best fit. The task was unambiguous, but confederates were told to give a unanimous incorrect response to influence the participant to conform. Results displayed that 37% of trials showed a conforming response. 75% of participants showed to conform at least once, while 25% did not conform at all. This concluded that a majority can influence a minority, even in an unambiguous situation. Asch had showed that majority influence was much stronger than what had been previously thought.   One limitation of his study was the use of a biased sa...