CGS SS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stanley Milgram, Milgram Experiment, Confirmation Bias
6 Apr 2016
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Social psychology is the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior and thought in social situations. (baron & byrne, Also interested in how we influence other"s thoughts: a distinctive view of the world. A social situation is whatever the participants agree that it is (william and dorothy thomas) Conflicts differing on what their views are. Have to agree on what you are doing (both people: interpreting behavior: dispositional perspective vs. situational perspective. Dispositional perspective: because he is the kind of person who would do that. How people behave in controlled situation: in a social psychology experiment, the experimenter constructs a controlled situation to see how subjects will respond to that situation. Confederate is pretending to be a subject, but is really working with the experimenter. Na ve subject really doesn"t know what"s going on; he/she is a real subject: classical social psychology experiments.
