What’s on the Conformity poster
A 6-row table: Variation · Effect.
Asch's variations and their effect on conformity rates.
- Baseline — ~37% of critical trials conformed
- One dissenting ally — Falls sharply, to around 5%
- Group size 1–2 — Very low conformity
- Group size 3+ — Little further increase
- Written answers — Falls — normative pressure removed
- Task made harder — Rises — informational influence
Two influences: normative — wanting to be liked; informational — believing others know better. The variations separate them.
Questions about the Conformity poster
- What’s on the Conformity poster?
- A 6-row table: Variation · Effect. Asch's variations and their effect on conformity rates. Baseline — ~37% of critical trials conformed; One dissenting ally — Falls sharply, to around 5%; Group size 1–2 — Very low conformity; Group size 3+ — Little further increase; Written answers — Falls — normative pressure removed; Task made harder — Rises — informational influence. Two influences: normative — wanting to be liked; informational — believing others know better. The variations separate them.
- Who is the Conformity poster for?
- Conformity belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning social can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Conformity poster?
- About a third conformed on critical trials. The presence of one ally collapsed the effect. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Conformity belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Conformity?
- Helping Behaviour, Attitudes & Behaviour and Attribution sit alongside Conformity in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Helping BehaviourAttitudes & BehaviourAttribution
- Is the Conformity poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Conformity downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Conformity poster print at?
- Conformity is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Conformity loses nothing.Printing guide
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