Question

Asch (1940) asked undergraduates to indicate how prestigious politicians were. Prior to their rating, one group was told that a sample of fellow students had ranked politicians near the top in prestige, whereas a second group was told that fellow students ranked politicians near the bottom. The participants' ratings were consistent with those of their fellow students. Asch suggested that this was because the comparison information activated different ________ for the two groups; one group was thinking of statesmen like Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and the other was thinking of corrupt politicians.

Answer 1

Answer:

schemas

Explanation:

Schema: In cognitive science and psychology, the term "schema" is determined as an individual's pattern of a specific behavior or thought that generally organizes different categories of a piece of information and the various relationships among them.

The term schema has been widely used by many psychologists and linguistics to comprehend the distinct interaction of various key factors that affects an individual comprehension process.

In the question above, the given statement signifies the "schemas".