PSY 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Learned Helplessness, Asch Conformity Experiments, Demand Characteristics
9 Nov 2018
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Psy 124: november 1, 2018 chapter 7: conformity guest speaker: social in uence obedience: Command: changing behaviour due to commands from authority gure compliance: Request: changing behaviour when asked to do so conformity: Attitude change: changing our perceptions, opinions or behaviour to be consistent with others around us social in uence falls along a continuum: exible across an individual. Internal experience in uencing resistance to conformity, compliance and obedience methods: Random assignment to jailer (guard) or prisoner. No physical abuse was stated to guard and prisoners before study guards: Demand characteristics: ful lling the characteristics of the role. Removing characteristics about a person that makes them di erent changes their behaviour prisoners: Changes the way we behave social and physical. Completely dark room shine a light through and soon we think the light is moving because we have no. Group of participants had to estimate how far the dot moved.
