Section: AP Psychology

49) Solomon Asch reported that individuals conformed to a group's judgment of the lengths of lines:

1. even when the group judgment was clearly incorrect.
2. only when the group was composed of at least six members.
3. even when the group seemed uncertain and repeatedly altered its judgment.
4. only when members of the group were of high status.

The Asch conformity experiments or the Asch Paradigm refers to a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yield to or defy of a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions