Question

__________ is the term for individuals who worked with the experimenter and purposely gave wrong answers during the asch study?

Answer 1

Confederates is the term for individuals who worked with the experimenter and purposely gave wrong answers during the ASCH study.
The Confederate States of America was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham Lincoln.
The ASCH study used a lab experiment to study conformity,.

Answer 2

The correct answer is confederates.

In Asch's study and other psychological research studies, experimenters sometimes use confederates or stooges. Confederates refer to individuals who appear to be and act like participants of a study. However, they are not true participants of the study, confederates are appointed by the experimenter to behave in a certain way in order to "trick" the real participants of a research study in some form.