PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Abnormal Psychology, Sleep Disorder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel J Levitin

Document Summary

The last lecture will be sent to your email as soon as possible. Power of situation to influence behavior: we"ve been talking about the power of situation to influence behavior. Milgram experiment, the experiments by asch on social conformity where people reported that they saw something different than what they saw because they wanted to conform with what the crowd has said. And we talked about the experiments by lee ross where he had people asked one another trivia questions and it seemed to affect their self perception in a kind of profound way. The people who were unable to answer the questions tended to feel stupider than the average and people who witnessed this whole debacle didn"t feel particularly smart. It doesn"t mean that there are only 5 kinds of people. It simply means that of all the different ways human beings differ from one another, we can cluster those terms along 5 independent axes.