PSYC 2984 Final: Social Psychology Final Exam
15 Dec 2015
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~a generally accepted way of feeling, thinking, or acting. ~can be formed by smaller groups, and are group-specific. Two types of social norms: what people actually think, feel, or do, ex. We actually treat people differently based on various. Injunctive: what people think you should think, feel, or do, ex. *these can either be different or the same. You actually believe what the group is doing is right: ex. Sheriff"s conformity experiment - had people come in his lab and perform a task. They were asked to gauge how much distance a dot has traveled on a screen. Afterward, he brought people in groups of three and had them do the same thing. Now, they all answer more similarly than before. Public conformity when your overt behavior matches the social norm, but your actual attitude toward social norm isn"t that social norm: ex.
