PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Lawn Sign, Adam Lambert, Victim Blaming

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: ozzy mermut

Document Summary

Social influence on behaviour - chapter 13 part 2 (march 7th) The power of the situation: part 2: obedience to authority: Tendency to obey: contributing factors: high status of authority figure, gradual nature of many obedience situations, belief authority is responsible for their actions, absence of clear-cut point to switch to disobedience. Def"n: get people to comply to small requests, and you will be more likely to have: foot-in-the-door technique them comply to greater requests later. When a smaller request is presented first: #1 license plate sticker: 65% say yes . #2 lawn sign: 76% now say yes . Definition: we favour internal attributions in explaining others" behaviour (i. e. we blame them for their misfortune) Self-serving bias: we make internal attributions for our successes, and external attributions for our setbacks: attribution error, attribution error (cont"d) We make internal attributions for positive events, and external ones for negative. Except for depressives who blame themselves for negative events.