It is 1951, and you are required to participate in a perception experiment. You join seven others seated in a room. You are shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines
The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is studying __________..
a) bystander apathy
b) social loafing
c) groupthink
d) conformity
ANS: D, Asch studied conformity by using a 10-inch line and having people give their assessment of that line amidst an array of research confederates.
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