How Did Solomon Asch Conformism
Solomon Asch
Solomon Asch was a social psychologist way back in the 1950s, which is even before my parents were born. Asch conducted a famous experiment on the effects of peer pressure on a person. What he found was that a person had a “tendency to conform, even it means to go against the person’s basic perceptions”. The web page also said that people “are swayed by the masses against our deepest feelings and convictions”. 1 These experiments that Asch created developed the theory of conformism, which says that a person will go along with the group, especially in a crisis.
But it was really started in the early 1900s, back before my grandparents were born, when social psychology was born. The studies, usually using college students, were asked about their choices about stuff. Then they were asked about their choices again, only this time they were told what other college students were choosing. This is what they found out: When “confronted with opinions contrary to their own, many subjects apparently shifted their judgments in the direction of the views of the majorities or experts”. 3 …show more content…
He got eight students to take a test. However, seven of the students were called “confederates” because they knew what was going on, like insiders. All eight students were given a test with lines on a piece of paper and were asked to match them up. I attached one of the tests. At first, all eight, including the seven insiders, answered correctly because it is a very easy test. But then the second time some of the seven insiders intentionally gave the wrong answer. And on the third time taking the test, all seven insiders gave the same wrong
Solomon Asch was a social psychologist way back in the 1950s, which is even before my parents were born. Asch conducted a famous experiment on the effects of peer pressure on a person. What he found was that a person had a “tendency to conform, even it means to go against the person’s basic perceptions”. The web page also said that people “are swayed by the masses against our deepest feelings and convictions”. 1 These experiments that Asch created developed the theory of conformism, which says that a person will go along with the group, especially in a crisis.
But it was really started in the early 1900s, back before my grandparents were born, when social psychology was born. The studies, usually using college students, were asked about their choices about stuff. Then they were asked about their choices again, only this time they were told what other college students were choosing. This is what they found out: When “confronted with opinions contrary to their own, many subjects apparently shifted their judgments in the direction of the views of the majorities or experts”. 3 …show more content…
He got eight students to take a test. However, seven of the students were called “confederates” because they knew what was going on, like insiders. All eight students were given a test with lines on a piece of paper and were asked to match them up. I attached one of the tests. At first, all eight, including the seven insiders, answered correctly because it is a very easy test. But then the second time some of the seven insiders intentionally gave the wrong answer. And on the third time taking the test, all seven insiders gave the same wrong