TEMPORAL VALIDITY

• WEAKNESSES OF ASCH'S RESEARCH?

  • temporal validity
  • ecological validity
  • internal validity
• WHO REPEATED ASCH'S RESEARCH?

  Perrin and Spencer
• WHAT DID PERRIN AND SPENCER DO?

  repeat Asch's study in Britain
• WHERE DID PERRIN AND SPENCER REPEAT ASCH'S STUDY?

  Britain
• WHAT WERE THE RESULTS OF PERRIN AND SPENCER'S RESEARCH?

  participants only conformed in less than 1% of trials
• WHAT TYPE OF STUDENTS DID PERRIN AND SPENCER USE?

  mathematics and chemistry
• WHAT MAY EXPLAIN WHY PERRIN AND SPENCER'S STUDENTS DIDN'T CONFORM?

  confidence and competence
• WHAT WAS THE PERIOD OF MCCARTHYISM IN THE USA?

  anti-communism (people were afraid to be different)
• WHY MAY ASCH'S RESEARCH LACK TEMPORAL VALIDITY?

  completed in a period of McCarthyism in the USA