Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Drive Theory, Critical Phenomena, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Agenda: reducing obedience, social facilitation, group decision making. You observe kris punch laura in the nose and immediately you explain this as due to kris having a very aggressive personality. You have just committed the: fundamental attribution error. Low status setting -> 50% complete: proximity. Hofling et. al. (1966: people complied when a doctor called a nurse to let them change the drug for a patient. The person is responsible for the other person: disobedient models. Groups: perceive to be in a group. What is a group: 2 or more people. Every day groups are 2 or 3 people. Relatively small in numbers: must have: The individual in the group: group effects on individual, social facilitation. If people do it with another person, then they do it faster. Mere presence of others facilitates performance: their presence is enough, work faster, work better. Going to be correct when performance of well- learned response or simple task.