PSYC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Psych
8 Sep 2020
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Group size has significant influence on whether or not we will conform. 1 (. 3); 2(1. 5); 3(4); 4(4. 2); 8 (3. 8) Milgram et al 1956 looking at the sky. People"s need for accuracy the more we need to know something, the more we rely on other people. Luuse and wells picking a criminal out of a line up. Witness a staged crime, told to id criminal in crime, judge credibility of testimony (how much confidence you have intestimony) by yourself. Group 3 other people, picked wrong person in crime; go along with mistaken assessment of who committed crime, and confidence was greater than in the solitary confession. 2 conditions: test of vision or needed opeople to provide eyewitness for trial. When thought providing testimony: conform with mistaken assessment of people, much more confident about judgment than social psych experiment. Low accuracy: 35% with wrong judgment with other 3, high accuracy: 51% went with wrong person.
