Recall Solomon Asch's famous line-judging studies. In these studies, research subjects were asked to make judgments about unambiguous stimuli. They were asked to do this while in the presence of confederates who consistently gave incorrect responses. According to the textbook, one of the important conclusions to be drawn from Asch's research is that ____.
a. people look to authority figures for informationrather than to the environment
b. people look to authority figures for informationrather than to one another
c. people look to the environment for informationrather than to one another
d. people look to one another for informationrather than to the environment
Question 2
Social psychology as a science can ____.
a. help refute most religious beliefs
b. speak to which religious beliefs are true and which are false
c. explain why some people accept or reject certain religious beliefs
d. determine which religion is the correct one
Historian James Merrell notes several errors in Benjamin West’s famous 1771 painting, William Penn’s
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An Example of the Stimuli Used by Asch (1951)
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