Confederate A Experiment

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In this experiment the group went through completing one trial. In the fourth grade class there were 10/19 (52.6%) students aloud to participate in the experiment due to the absence of returned permission slips. There were 6/10 (60%) females and 4/10 (40%) male students that participated to conduct the experiment.
The trial included the separations of genders. The group added one confederate in order to do a same sex grouping. Experimenter 1 conducted her experiment with all of the females with Experimenter 2 observing and taking notes. All of the females 6/6 (100%) were involved in their opinions on what occupations Experimenter 1 could pursue. There were six main jobs repeated and brought up by the females during the same sex grouping. The repetition was …show more content…

Confederate A was conducting with the four males given. While conducting the experiment 4/4 (100%) of the males participated and took interest within choosing occupations for Confederate A. Out of all occupations given being an athlete was repeated, but with different sports. Such as, 4/4 (100%) football, 2/4 (50%) basketball, and ¼ soccer. All males stated that Confederate A should pursue youtube creator, video game creator, police officer, gym teacher, and scientist. There was 2/4 (50%) subjects that stated occupations such as NASA worker and FBI/CIA. While as there were a few extra occupations stated including repair man ¾ (75%) and ¼ (25%) race car driver. The group proceeded to have all subjects come into one room in front of both Confederate A Experimenter 1 and tell occupations for either sex. The group had the believence that both sexs would witheild their opinions. At first, there were observations made by Experimenter 2 and 3 that made the subjects seem as if they would not answer honestly. While in time the subjects, both genders began to state different occupation that

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