PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Solomon Asch, John Bargh, Chameleon

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Automatic mimicry: demonstrated by tanya chartrand and john bargh in experiment, students worked alongside a confederate working for an experimenter. If he rubbed his face, the other students rubbed their face, too. Ex: # of suicides went up after marilyn monroe"s highly publicized suicide. Conformity: adjusting our behaviour or thinking to coincide with a group standard. Conformity rates are lower in individualist cultures. Normative social influence: influence resulting from person"s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval. To avoid rejection or to gain social approval. Informational social influence: influence resulting from one"s willingness to accept others" opinions about reality. Rebecca denton set the record for the furthest distance driven on the wrong side of a british divided highway: she thought the other drivers were all one the wrong side of the road. Birkenhead ship on which soldiers stood still to allow passengers off the boat in calm= when obedience was good.