PSY 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Social Influence, Optical Illusion, Culture Of Asia

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 161
• Professor: Professor Elliot

Document Summary

Change in behavior based on the standards of others. Informational influence - accepting evidence about reality provided by other people. Normative influence - person"s desire to fulfill other"s expectations, often to gain acceptance; going along with crowd regardless of one"s actual beliefs. Seated in a dark room and asked to estimate how much stationary light moved. Perceived movement, you see it as moving, so your judgements are really difficult to make because you don"t know *how much* it"s moving. Seeing how people change the judgment of theirs based on the judgement of others in an ambiguous situation. Informational influence - extreme examples: war of the worlds. People missed the disclaimer that this was a story, and not a real event - played out as a real broadcast on radio. Martians had invaded the earth, everyone was terrified: koro. Asian culture, believed that presence of ghosts made genitalia grow smaller.