PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Begging, Peer Pressure, Ibm Officevision
11 Mar 2013
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The myth of personal freedom: we are made up of all these elements. The tiny snowflake that is you is at the bottom. We are raised and socialized to analyze others. We spend our time trying to figure out what makes ourselves and others close to us tick. Shaped like an upside down triangle, order of appearance: universe, culture, norms, roles, reference groups, me (all) conformity, conformity is a very basic part. It"s outside the triangle because it is the process and engine operating all of this. Conformity: most of the time we aren"t interested. We will acknowledge different opinions, but we have out own and we don"t want to change. Physical reality: prof going back to alaska, physical environment influences what he does- this is minimal, people he likes, what he does- others are a source of information, social, asch experiment. 5 students into lab to take part in study on perception.
