Abstract
dc:description.abstractSolomon Asch conducted a Line Judgment Task in the 1950s that led researchers to believe that conformity can be assessed through experimentation. The purpose of this study was to modify that of Asch's experiment and to assess the answers that college undergraduate students would give. Twelve trials of line comparison tasks were utilized as well as answers from five confederates. It was hypothesized that out of the 47 participants, more of them would answer incorrectly to the incorrectly answered trials of the confederates than those to those trials that the confederates answered correctly. There were a total of five incorrect trials and seven correct trials that confederates answered correctly. This study does lend support to the notion of conformity based on answers of confederates; there was a higher percentage incorrect for the incorrect trials than compared to the correct trials. The reasoning and explanation of these results are discussed.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.A. School Psychology-Professional School Psychology
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Educational Services, Administration, and Higher Education
- Year dc:date.available
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Roman, Mark
- Contributors dc:contributor
-
- Klanderman, John
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/155
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:rdw.rowan.edu:etd-1154