Solomon Asch designed an experiment in which participants made judgements about the length of lines. He was studying_________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In Asch’s study of conformity, subjects:

   A. were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simples
   B. were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to stranger
   C. indicated which of three lines matched a “standard line” in length
   D. became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice

2. In Asch’s studies______were found to be the key determinants of conformity.

   A. task difficulty and group size
   B. the group leader’s personality and group unanimity
   C. group size and the subjects’ intelligence
   D. group size and group unanimity

3. When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?

   A. Hindsight bias
   B. Intuition
   C. Availability heuristic
   D. Conditional reasoning

4. In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated:

   A. Retinal disparity
   B. Stroboscopic movement
   C. Perceptual constancy
   D. Inattentional blindness

5. In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers’ predictions, psychologists sometimes:

   A. treat information about individual participants confidentially
   B. deceive participants about the true purpose of an experiment
   C. allow subjects to pick whether they are in the experimental or control group
   D. allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to participate in an experiment

6. Which of the following is an example of people’s reliance on the representativeness heuristic to make decisions or judgements?

   A. People report that they did more than 50% of the work in domestic situations
   B. People tend to overestimate car accidents
   C. People are more likely to attribute a case of heartbum to spicy food than bland food
   D. People tend to underestimate death from diabetes

7. Sherif’s autokinetic experiments and Asch’s line studies demonstrated the power of which social psychological factor on the degree to which people confirm?

   A. Group identity
   B. individual norms
   C. Individual identity
   D. Group norms

8. In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?

   A. factorial design
   B. within subjects design
   C. between subjects design
   D. quasi-experimental design

9. If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?

   A. invalid
   B. biased
   C. error
   D. unreliable

10. An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:

    A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
    B. rote memory scores
    C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
    D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue