PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Situation Two, Lucid Dream, Solomon Asch

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Robert Thunhurst

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Dreams: manifest content: the images in dreams (symbolic, latent content: the meaning of the images, problem solving: you have a dream that seems to explain something (these drea(cid:373)s do(cid:374)"t happe(cid:374) ofte(cid:374)(cid:895) e(cid:454). Sleep psychology: study of the way behavior or cognitions are influenced by the presence of others: think or act differently when you are alone vs when you are around other people. Stanford mock prison study- people will do things because they think they are obligated to do things- the role that they had (guards would be rude to prisoners because that was the role that they had) Solomon asch- social conformity- (people will conform when other people are obviously choosing the wrong thing- they conformed to their answer because they feared rejection) Effects memory- 9/11, (cid:455)ou liste(cid:374) to other people"s e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d (cid:455)ours start to sou(cid:374)d like theirs. Bystander intervention: helping someone who is in immediate need of aid.