PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Influence, Norm (Social), Social Cognition

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Academic advising- planning for upper year psychology: provide program information, open- mon-fri 9:30-3:30. Bsb room 291: need to take psyc1010 before you can enroll in any upper year psychology courses. 2 main areas: social cognition- the study of how you perceive and evaluate others, social influence the study of how we influence each other"s behaviours, judgments, attitudes, beliefs, etc. Compliance - agreeing to someone"s direct request or command. Obedience - same thing as compliance, but person making the request is an authority figure. Conformity - adjusting your behaviour or thinking to coincide with a group standard. Example of a study on obedience (milgram): study was looking for male participants for a learning experiment learner and a teacher. The learner was always a confederate (actor- was not actually getting shocked, but the teacher did not know this information) learner was hooked up to a shock machine. Teacher was required to shock the learner whenever they got an answer incorrect.