In a study by Asch, when confederates gave an incorrect answer to which of three lines is longer, three-quarters of the participants, at least once tended to .

agree with the wrong answer

Explanation:

They gave at least one incorrect comforming response

Solomon Asch (Conformity) experiment with a series of psychological experiment in the 1950s. In his study, he tried looking at how pressure from a group could lead people to conform even when they knew the rest of the group was wrong, he measure the number of times each participant conformed to the majority view. His experiment involved having people who were on the study pretend to be a regular participants alongside others who were actual unaware of the study, About 18 different trails were conducted in which those who had no knowledge of the experiment were place among those in on the study .

The naive participant were told by other confederates what their response should be when they were been question because prior to that, those naive participant were told they are partaking in a vision study.

The naive participant had no idea that the other participant were not real participant, when they were questioned each and everyone of them verbally announced or answer what they been told with their answer matching the target ones

Conformity is the individual tendency to follow the behaviors of group to which he or she belong to

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