PSYCH 1X03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Social learning theory: social learning theory can help you understand how a complex cognitive skill such as language is acquired in children through explicit reinforcement, this theory can also be used to explain how social behaviours are shaped. Conformity: conformity has powerful control over our behaviour. Gerard"s study (cid:894)1955(cid:895) ea(cid:272)h subject was seated in a separate cubicle where they could neither see (cid:374)or hear the others su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts. Like as(cid:272)h"s study, a su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t (cid:373)ade a judge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t after seei(cid:374)g a set of lines. The twist here was that each subject made an anonymous response by pressing a button. Before responding, lights in front of the subject indicated the anonymous responses of the other subjects: even with anonymity, subjects still went along with the wrong answers of the rest of the group on a number of trails. Importantly subjects conformed primarily on trails where the correct answer was less clear.
