PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Social Influence, Social Identity Theory, Pluralistic Ignorance
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Social psychology is how people feel toward and act towards other people. Early work: heider (1944) created cartoon video to show to students, there were. 3 shapes, a square and a small circle and triangle. The students were told to watch it and then had to tell the researcher what they saw. Kelley"s model- there are 3 points of information we need to know. Distinctiveness- is this person"s behavior distinctive to the situation right now or is it always happening. Consistency- if i put them in the same situation again will they do the same thing as they did before. Distinctiveness- is high (didn"t laugh at other comedians. Consistency- is high (she always laughs at this comedian) The fundamental attribution error- assuming that by the way you look at someone, that is how they really are as a person. Excuse giving- want the person we give the excuse to, to make a positive assumption and help us out.
