PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Solomon Asch, Role Conflict, Social Influence
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The mere presence of others: 1898 triplett, social facilitation, the tendency for the presence of others to enhance our performance on simple tasks and impair performance on complex tasks. Social norms: shared expectations about how people should think, feel, and behave, often implicit and unspoken, regulate daily behavior without our conscious awareness. Social role: a set of norms that characterizes how people in a given social position ought to behave, role conflict. Stanford prison social experiment: people were assigned as guards or prisoners. Conformity: conformity, the adjustment of individual behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs to a group standard, normative social influence, conforming in order to be accepted by other people and to avoid rejection. Informational social influence: following others because we believe that they are right. Solomon asch (1951: students were asked to judge which of three comparison lines was the same length as a standard line, 37% of participants conformed to the incorrect group answer.
