PSYC 100 Study Guide - Social Proof, Carl Jung, Reaction Formation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Social environment play a role in how we develop. Models: people who we have the opportunity to observe, and by doing so, from whom we learn to behave appropriately. Anyone in our environment can be a model, but amount of influence varies among models. Early in life, parents and caregivers dominate our social world. Alter on, our social influences expand to teachers and friends. Social brain hypothesis: the reason that species like humans, chimpanzees and dolphins have developed brains so large and demanding is to meet cognitive demands of social living. Suggests that the reason for evolutionary growth of the brain is to provide an advantage to social creatures over others of their species. In a species, the individuals with the greatest ability to outsmart their competitors will be most likely to survive. Greater cognitive abilities are seleceted through this process and eventually, larger brains will become the norm throughout the population.