Solomon Asch conducted a conformity experiment in which respondents were presented with lines of varying lengths and asked to select the line that most closely matched a separate line.
Covert research assistants were also present and were instructed to encourage respondents to select incorrectly. What were the results of this study?
a. Respondents never went along with the covert research assistants.
b. Respondents went along with the covert research assistants at least 37 percent of the time.
c. Respondents went along with the covert research assistants 90 percent of the time.
d. Respondents said they would go along with the covert research assistants then changed their minds at the lastminute.
Question 2
Industrialization is characterized by the transformation of economies based in agriculture to those based in __________.
a. large scale manufacturing of goods
b. customerservice and technology
c. family farming and urban development
d. environmental conservation
The swan neck flask experiment
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Major trunk lines carrying long-distance traffic crisscrossed the area east of the Mississippi. The
Elements of an Experiment
The Meselson–Weigle experiment
The Taylor–Woods–Hughes experiment