PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Stanley Milgram, Kraljevi Ulice, Murder Of Kitty Genovese

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

How we influence others, and how others influence us. Conformity (cid:523)adjusting one"s attitudes and behaviours to coincide with a group norm(cid:524) Answering people in the language they used to address you, obeying traffic laws, waiting in line . Topic 1: influence conformity that is necessary for social interaction. It can be harmful, such as following bullying. Over time, they developed a personal standard by consistently reporting the same amount of movement. Muzafer sherif"s classic 1936 study showed how group norms develop. Male participants were told they were participating in an experiment on visual perception that req them to sit in completely dark room. In front of them, a light appeared for a few seconds, they had to indicate how far they thought the light moved. But the light dn move, saw an optical illusion called the autokinetic effect. a few days, participants returned but were joined by two other participants.