PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cupcake, Normative Social Influence, Cognitive Bias

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

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Results: then in group as participants listened to each others answers they converging their answers with the other peoples. How do we conform: to look for information (informational in uence, when the situation is ambiguous the actions of others (verbal and non verbal) helps us. Gure out reality: often happens when we do not have well-learned normal for particular situation (making it ambiguous, ex. how to dress the rst day of a new job. Solomon asch: in sherif"s work there was no objective reference point, people would conform even if it goes against an objective reference point. Can socially in uence behaviour inform attitude: an hour on boring and tedious tasks, then asked to persuade another participant (actor) that the tasks were interesting and engaging, independent variable was payment (, ) Situational attribution: factors outside the person are causing the action: the reason they did it is cause of the situation they are in, 2.