PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Attachment Theory, Physical Attractiveness, Social Facilitation

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

Document Summary

Examines the ways in which people exert influence on the behaviours and attitudes of others: persuasion. We adjust our beavhiours or thinking to coincide with a group norm: helps to function safely and effectively. Can have negative consequences: tormenting other kids because everyone else is doing it. The autokinetic effect: norms develop in small groups, experiment using light in a dark room, participant would say whether they thought the light had moved. Line judgments: test how peoples beliefs effect the beliefs of others, wanted to see if conformity existed in situations where there was an objective truth. Participants had to compare 1 line with 3 others to which was the same length. Only one real participant, the others were planned. Each participant had to wait for each person to provide their response before they could give theirs. 76% conformed to the wrong answer to the people in front of them at least once.