PSYCH 135 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Network, Sleep Deprivation, Friedrich Nietzsche
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Five hypotheses: purpose of the finger demonstraion conformity to authority, conformity to group norms, difusion of responsibility, subtle clothing primes. Why do we do the things we do. Being in a crowd, looking to others to see what"s right and what"s wrong. Societal figures with higher standing authority (obey or be respectful: clears ambiguous situations, makes you feel like we chose independently because we do it often without realizing it. Demonstration repeated with just one person on stage: when you act alone, you can"t look to other to define the situation. Diffusion of responsibility you release yourself from the responsibility of doing something because you assume someone else will take responsibility for it/do it. It is how we afect each other: five hypotheses and their corollaries. Connecions to other parts of the course. Subjecive construal & na ve realism: importance of situaional context (muliples examples)
