What were participants led to believe in Asch's conformity experiments?
A)The other group members all selected an incorrect line length during one of the trials.
B)They were administering potentially harmful electric shocks to another participant in a learner condition.
C)They would be training undergraduate women to use a computer.
D)They were joining a normative organization in order to pursue some common interest.

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Participants were shown a set of cards with lines of varying lengths and asked to match a line to a standard line. The other group members (who were confederates) purposely gave incorrect answers, thus leading the participant to believe that they were the only one giving the correct answer.

What Were Participants Led to Believe in Asch's Conformity Experiments