Asch is well known for what is apparently a simple group perceptual task: selecting which, of three lines, matched another line in length. What did Asch do to make this simple task not so simple?
a. Only one person in the group was an experimental “subject;” the rest were confederates who were told in advance to make the same incorrect response.
b. Another subject, in an adjacent room, administered electric shocks to individuals who gave incorrect answers.
c. Asch paid participants $100 for getting the entire group to agree with them on the correct response.
d. Asch secretly administered perception-altering drugs to participants.
A
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