The term for individuals who worked with the experimenter and purposely gave wrong answers during the Asch study is ________.

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Confederates are individuals who are part of the experiment's design and work with the experimenter, often pretending to be participants but following scripted actions or responses. In the Asch conformity experiments, confederates were instructed to give wrong answers to see if the actual participant would conform to the group's incorrect consensus.

The Term for Individuals Who Worked with the Experimenter and Purposely