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Thought of the Week
Solomon Asch Conformity Line Experiment Study
The Asch paradigm was a series of conformity experiments by Solomon Asch designed to investigate how social pressure from a majority group could influence an individual to conform.
In the experiments, groups of participants were asked to match the length of lines on cards, a task with an obvious answer.
However, each group only included one real participant, with the rest being confederates instructed to give the incorrect answer.
Solomon Asch experimented with investigating the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform.
He believed the main problem with Sherif’s (1935) conformity experiment was that there was no correct answer to the ambiguous autokinetic experiment. How could we be sure that a person conformed when there was no correct answer?
Asch (1951) devised what is now regarded as a classic experiment in social psychology, whereby there was an obvious answer to a line judgment task.
If the participant gave an incorrect answer, it would be clear that this was due to group pressure.
Asch used a lab experiment to study conformity, whereby 50 male students from Swarthmore College in the USA participated in a ‘vision test.’
Using a line judgment task, Asch put a naive participant in a room with seven confederates/stooges. The confederates had agreed in advance what their responses would be when presented with the line task.
The real participant did not know this and was led to believe that the other seven confederates/stooges were also real participants like themselves.
Each person in the room had to state aloud which comparison line (A, B or C) was most like the target line. The answer was always obvious. The real participant sat at the end of the row and gave his or her answer last.
At the start, all participants (including the confederates) gave the correct answers. However, after a few rounds, the confederates started to provide unanimously incorrect answers.
There were 18 trials in total, and the confederates gave the wrong answer on 12 trials (called the critical trials). Asch was interested to see if the real participant would conform to the majority view.
Asch’s experiment also had a control condition where there were no confederates, only a “real participant.”
Findings
Asch measured the number of times each participant conformed to the majority view.
On average, about one third (32%) of the participants who were placed in this situation went along and conformed with the clearly incorrect majority on the critical trials.
Over the 12 critical trials, about 75% of participants conformed at least once, and 25% of participants never conformed.
In the control group, with no pressure to conform to confederates, less than 1% of participants gave the wrong answer.
Conclusion
Why did the participants conform so readily? When they were interviewed after the experiment, most of them said that they did not really believe their conforming answers, but had gone along with the group for fear of being ridiculed or thought “peculiar.
A few of them said that they did believe the group’s answers were correct.
Apparently, people conform for two main reasons: because they want to fit in with the group (normative influence) and because they believe the group is better informed than they are (informational influence).
THE COMING WEEK:
- Monday
- None
- Tuesday
- Sign up for a 1-Hour block with Lori
- EME Safety Meeting 7:00-7:30
- ICCL Meeting 2:30-3:15
- Wednesday
- Dexter Chamberlin’s Birthday!
- Office Admin Meeting 7:00-7:30
- SIW – EL Planning 1:00-2:30
- Thursday
- Smart Reading (Kindergarten) 9:45-10:45
- Sped Team Meeting – 2:30-3:15
- Admin BAM Meeting 3:30-4:45
- Friday
- EET Weekly Meeting 8:00-9:00
UPCOMING DATES:
- April 7 – Staff Meeting 2:30-3:15
- April 8 – Care Teams Meeting 7:00-8:00
- April 9 – Office Admin Meeting 7:00-7:30
- April 9 – SIW – Teacher Prep 1:00-2:30
- April 9 – Admin Meeting 3:00-4:30
- April 10 – Smart Reading (Kindergarten) 9:45-10:45
- April 10 – Fire Drill 1:30
- April 10 – Sped Team Meeting – 2:30-3:15
- April 11 – EET Weekly Meeting 8:00-9:00
- April 13 – Emily McLarty’s Birthday!
- April 14 – Meet with Peter
- April 15 – Admin Meeting 3:00-5:00
- April 16 – Office Admin Meeting 7:00-7:30
- April 16 – Conferences
- April 17 – Conferences
- April 18 – No School
- April 21 – Ben out for meeting 7:30-12:30
- April 21 – Committees Meeting 2:30-3:15
- April 22 – Earth Day
- April 22 – Care Teams Meeting 7:00-8:00
- April 22 – Admin Training – 3:00-5:00
- April 23 – Administrative Professionals Day!
- April 23 – Spring Picture Day
- April 23 – Office Admin Meeting 7:00-7:30
- April 23 – SIW Ed Network Day 1:00-2:30
- April 23 – Safety Cadre Meeting 1:30-3:30
- April 24 – Smart Reading (Kindergarten) 9:45-10:45
- April 24 – Lock Down Drill 1:00
- April 24 – Sped Team Meeting – 2:30-3:15
- April 25 – Stephanie JS Birthday!
- April 25 – EET Weekly Meeting 8:00-9:00
- April 27 – Laura G Birthday!
- April 29 – Forest Kindergarten 9:30-1:30
- April 29 – ICCL Meeting 2:30-3:15
- April 30 – Office Admin Meeting 7:00-7:30
- April 30 – SIW Ed Network Follow Up 1:00-2:30
- May 1 – Smart Reading (Kindergarten) 9:45-10:45
- May 1 – Sped Team Meeting – 2:30-3:15
- May 2 – EET Weekly Meeting 8:00-9:00
Updates from Downtown
Spring Conferences: Time Frames and Schedule: After consultation with BEA two years ago, we have landed on the following information regarding length of a conference. If a teacher has 25 or less students, their conferences need to be between 25-30 minutes to accommodate for transition times as needed (25 min gives time for a quick restroom break, time in case one goes longer, etc.). If a teacher has 26 or more students, their conferences can be 20 minutes, giving the teacher the ability to have a few longer ones as well as building in transition times if needed.
For Spring conferences, the work days are as follows: Wednesday, April 16, from 7:15-3:15 (first 8 hours if your day is slightly different) is work time–no conferences during this time and 3:15-7:15 is conference time. Thursday, April 17, 7:15-7:15 are conferences. Friday, April 18, is a day off to trade.
Important Links
- March 19th Elementary TLC Update
- Topics of Interest/Problem of Practice-Got something you want some collaboration with? (New Request about systems to support student behavior)
- FAQs for Special Education Inclusion Topics—Keep checking in here! BEA and BLS supported
Notes from our Team:
From Shelby Paulson, District Librarian-Please consider supporting your Media Managers to go to this amazing event!
From Julie Richards in Elementary Curriculum and Instruction
I am looking for a school that would be willing to have some visitors come to observe EL one day during the week of April 7-10th. This would be a team of 6-7 teachers from Sisters School District. Please let me know if you would be open to having visitors. Thank you.
From Scott and Kayla in Safety
Our School Resource Officer team is rotating out the supervisor position with Bend PD. Most of you know Sergeant Joe Pacheco and the outstanding job he’s done to support our schools and the SRO team over the past few years. Joe was recently promoted to Lieutenant with Bend PD and will be moving to his new supervisory role within their department after this week.
We will be working with Bend PD on Wednesday to select the new Sergeant for the SRO team, but due to Bend PD staffing management, the new Sergeant will not be able to start working with us until September, as we begin the next school year.
You can find the updated SRO contact list in the safety resource google drive, here.
Please follow the guidelines in the contact roster to get support from law enforcement or our SROs as appropriate for the situation and your school. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you,
From Ryan Kelling in Human Resources: 2 things!
- Hi all, we have A LOT of contract letters that are still outstanding. Contract letters for licensed employees were sent to all licensed employees via UKG and must be returned no later than April 15. If they have not yet completed theirs, please have them log in to UKG to review and submit their response as soon as possible. Administrators, please ensure your staff are aware of this deadline and follow up as needed – and don’t forget to return yours too! If you have any questions or need assistance, please reach out to Candy Gelatt or the email group [email protected]
Action Items
- Make sure you and your staff have signed their contract letters by April 15
Important Dates
- April 8: School Board Meeting 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
- April 9: Administrator Professional Development 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Perseverance Hall, Read Ch 3 of Thriving Leaders
- April 15: Horizontal meeting 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. at Ponderosa Elementary–PON and Jewell host
- April 19: On the Road to Kindergarten Event 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at various parks
- April 22: Admin ICCL 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.