PSYC 2084 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fidel Castro, Second Amendment To The United States Constitution, Cuban Missile Crisis
1 Nov 2016
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A generally accepted way of thinking, feeling, or acting. An agreed upon mental representation of what a group of people should think, feel, or do. An agreed upon mental representation of what a group of people actually think, feel, or do. Participants were shown a set of light dots. Asked how far it moved and they reported individually. Short delay, brought people back in groups of 3 and told them what each had previously said. Then had them individually report how far the dot moves again (which was actually the same distance) Everyone begins to change answers to the median of reported number of the. When you repeat with the same people, they eventually reach a consensus (after 3 sessions) Base the answer on social norms that on some level, the group knows what"s right. An individual"s overt behavior matches the social norm. But, they don"t accept the social norm as their own value.
