The tests allowed us to come to a conclusion about our hypothesis.
Method.
In our experiment, we first had to organize everything so the experimental procedure would run accordingly. We decided that we would be testing conformity and confidence levels with Nashua High School North students. To do this, we chose to conduct the experiment using legos. This is because legos can either be very simple, or very confusing, depending on which kind of structure you are building. Some are nearly impossible to build without some type of instructional book. We begun the experiment by going into classrooms and asking to pull some students out for a psychology experiment. It was roughly about 5-6 students at a time. We had four different tasks we were testing on different groups of students. An easy task that involved absolutely no cheating of the confederates, and another easy task that involved cheating of the confederates. Then we had a difficult task that had absolutely no cheating, and another hard task with the confederates cheating. The easy task was a straight forward task for the students to construct. They were told to build any kind of moving vehicle. Anything that basically moved, looked similar to any sort of vehicle, was acceptable. The hard task was to construct a vehicle that moves, is enclosed, has the lego person inside, windows, must have doors that open and close. .
Subjects were given ten minutes to complete the task asked. Doing this, we basically were testing if the subject would conform to other subjects or confederates around them. If the confederates were cheating, would the subject cheat as well? Would they also pull out their phones? Would they use the instructional book inside the kit, even though we mentioned to work individually and with only the materials given in front of them? These were the questions we were looking to answer while conducting the experiment. We chose these subjects because It wouldn't throw off our statistics.