PSY 1102 Study Guide - World View, Social Trap, Amygdala

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Ask to go to your friends house and once they say yes you ask them if you can sleepover: ex. You are dating somebody and not ready to have sex yet, they ask for just a little kiss instead and they have their foot in the door: role-playing role of student and professor is switched, ex. Zimbardo (1972) recruited young men in uni. Informational social influence we conform because of our desire to be right. Bring in someone from the outside to sit in on your meetings. A. 2 psychological factors: mental shortcuts we can simplify things, categorization fruits or vegetables, us vs. them, us is the in-group the group we belong to and the them is the out-group the us group is. Heterogeneous when we think about the in-group we are super clear that we differ within the group, homogeneous we see them as all good or all bad.