PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stanley Milgram, Deindividuation

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Rahhal Tamara

Document Summary

Attitudes and social cognition - read: module 55 - social in uence. Prejudice and discrimination - read: module 57 pos/neg social behavior. Note: you better read chapter 18 very carefully, many test questions on social psychology will come from the text. Def: a change in behavior due to real or imagined in uence of other people. Acting in a certain way because of others. Acting differently than if you were alone. Ex: teens dressing alike, laughing at a bad joke, doing the wave at a game. Asch study conformity in an unambiguous situation. 1) groups of subjects participate in a perceptual judgment task. Only one person was a real subject, the rest were confederates. 2) view a target line and 3 comparison lines. 3) each person says which comparison line matches the target line. Notes: first few trials -confederates say correct line, then, all the confederates say the same, incorrect line. When tested with the group of confederates - less.