PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Loafing, Health Psychology, Biomedical Model

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1
• Professor: tucker

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Conformity: changing of adapting a behavior or an attitude to be consistent with the norms of a group or the expectations of others. Social facilitations: any effect on perfomace (positive or negative), that can be attributed to the presense of others. Social loafing: the tendency to put forth less effort when working with others on a common task than when working alone. Groupthinking: the tendence for members of a very cohesive group to feel such pressure to maintain group solidarity and to reach agreement on an issue that thye failt to adequately weigh available evidence or to consider objections and alterntives. Zimbardo"s prison study (1972): standford university students were divided into prisoners and. The experiment has to be called off after 6 days becauses the subjects all perceived it too realisticly the guards were dexcribed as quickly becoming heartless tormeters, and the prisoners became debased and subservient.