Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Pedestrian Crossing, Disinhibition, Candid Records

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

The matching hypothesis: berscheid, we prefer the best most attractive mate, but we choose people who are similar to ourselves, seems to hold in a lab and a real world setting. Cash and derlega same sex relationships also look for similar partners. Social influence subject to it all the time. Norms: conventions, customs, and laws that apply to a group"s behaviour. Conformity: change in attitude, behaviour or belief brought about by the real or imagines pressure from others. Independence: choose to do what you want to do. Anti-conformity: do anything but what the group wants they don"t want to satisfy the group. Our behaviour may be shaped by models, even in absence of direct intentional influence. Response disinhibition: model performs desired, but prohibited, act: examples: cross walk light is red. Response facilitation: model performs legal behaviour, then we copy: example: yawning. Informational versus normative pressure: informational: group gives you information that the individual can use to make a rational decision.