Task difficulty

• What happens to conformity rates as the task difficulty increases? The conformity rate becomes greater or increases
• What will individuals do as the task difficulty increases? They will look to others for guidance
• What happened in Asch's study when he increased the task difficulty? Making the lines look more similar. So the parrticipants became more likely to conform to wrong answers
• Lucas et al.

  • gave participants "easy" and "hard" maths problems
  • participants conformed to confederates more often when doing hard questions