PSYC 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Confirmation Bias, Satisficing, Alex Faickney Osborn

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3430
• Professor: Peter K Papadogiannis

Document Summary

Bertand russell (1938) concluded that the fundamental concept in social science is. Power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Social power: the capacity to influence others, even when others try to resist influence. Power can be direct or indirect, depending on norms, group, or values. Voice-feedback condition: the learner s shouts and pleas can be heard through the wall. Proximity condition: the learner sat in the same room as the teacher, voicing the same complaints used in the voice-feedback condition. Touch-proximity condition: the learner sat next to the teacher and received his shock when he put his hand on a shock plate. Low surveillance condition: experimenter continues to give orders to the participant by telephone, but lost the ability to monitor the subject s actions. Ordinary-man variation: added fourth member to the group, who was given the task of recording the shock levels used.