A level Psychology helppp please

Can someone help me with this work, please? I am struggling so bad.

- Presence of non-conforming role :
- Task is very difficult: increases conformity
- Participants are very confident : decreases conformity
- Female participants instead of males : increases conformity
- Answers are given in private: decreases conformity
- Carried out at the present time (not 1950s): decreases conformity
- Carried out in a collectivist culture : increases conformity

Why might it have had this effect?

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Reply 1

shumaira

Original post by ultrawaters982

Can someone help me with this work, please? I am struggling so bad.

Whether each bullet point increases or decreases conformity. If possible why might it have had this effect.

-Does the presence of non-conforming role :
- Task is very difficult: increases conformity
- Participants are very confident :
- Female participants instead of males :
- Answers are given in private :
- Carried out at the present time (not 1950s) :
- Carried out in a collectivist culture :

Is this for a specific study?

Reply 2

zarahh09

Original post by shumaira

Is this for a specific study?

Asch's study

Reply 3

shumaira

Original post by ultrawaters982

Asch's study

Ooh I haven't done that study yet. Let me ask my sister

Reply 4

zarahh09

Original post by shumaira

Ooh I haven't done that study yet. Let me ask my sister

Tysm

Reply 5

shumaira

Original post by ultrawaters982

Tysm

Participants are very confident: decreases conformity
Females instead of males: increases conformity
Answers are given in private: decreases conformity
Carried out in collectivist culture: increases conformity

I didn't do the ones you already got right since there's be no point lol. Hope this helped :smile:

Reply 6

zarahh09

Original post by shumaira

thank you so so much :smile:

Reply 7

anon033

Original post by ultrawaters982

Can someone help me with this work, please? I am struggling so bad.

Whether each bullet point increases or decreases conformity. If possible why might it have had this effect?

-Does the presence of non-conforming role :
- Task is very difficult: increases conformity
- Participants are very confident :
- Female participants instead of males :
- Answers are given in private: increases conformity
- Carried out at the present time (not 1950s): decreases conformity
- Carried out in a collectivist culture :

If Ps are more confident they’d be less likely to conform, however if the confederates/stooges were more confident and went first, conformity would increase.
I think females conformed more due to society at the time. Women were treated differently when the experiment took place and there were different social norms.
Private answers DECREASED conformity, I think you’ve made a mistake.
Collectivist cultures increased conformity in comparison to individualist cultures.

Reply 8

zarahh09

Original post by anon033

Yes I did. Thank you for correcting me. Also tysm for your help, It really helped me

Reply 9

anon033

Original post by ultrawaters982

Yes I did. Thank you for correcting me. Also tysm for your help, It really helped me

No problem. I answered then saw someone else had told you lol, but glad you got the right answer in the end. Did you understand why it was wrong? With psych understanding is everything and I know a question on conformity came up last year so I’d make sure to consolidate this topic!