PSYCH101 Lecture 8: Lecture 8

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Song: blue eyed son - self fulfilling prophecy. Social psych - the power of the situation: Kurt lewin - behaviour is a function of a person in the situation. Situations powerfully create behaviour, wouldn"t do certain things just because of the situation you"re in. People who are concerned about the real world need to respect ppl who develop theories, and people who develop them need to apply them to the real world. Most complex theories see how these two things go together. How did ppl make judgements when they have no basis to make that judgement. How do they influence each other when there"s no basis to make judgements. What he found is that ppl some up with a similar answer forming a norm. One person can bias the average ex. Someone said it moved 9 inches the groups guess is influenced based on this.