Which of the following best defines the Asch effect?

Which of the following best defines the Asch effect?

1: influence of one person on the creation of a group goal

2: influence of the group majority on an individual’s judgment

3: influence of the group minority on individual judgment

4: influence of the group majority on an individual’s judgment

Answer: Correct option: B or D

The Asch effect is the type when people tend to lean over to the majority group and adopt judgment of others despite the wrongness of those judgments. It shows that individuals are considerably affected by peer pressure and social conformity to an extent that they can lose their initial position. In Asch’s well known experiments, it is often that participants would agree to give wrong answers to simple visual aptitude tasks even when the right answer by the confederates displayed was quite obvious . The Asch effect illustrates the possible pressure of people to make group unity even when it involves neglecting one’s own convictions in certain social situations.