PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Kurt Lewin, Philip Zimbardo, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Philip zimbardo, social psychologist, too simplistic to solely blame the individual perpetuators but also look at situational forces to fully understand social reality, social psychologists study the interaction between the person and situation. Social facilitation: occurs when one"s performance is affected by the presence of others. Arousal explains this, can increase performance in simple tasks, but decrease it in complex tasks. Groupthink: refers to this stifling of diversity that occurs when individuals aren"t able to express their true perspectives, instead having to focus on agreeing with others and maintaining harmony in the group. Normative influence: a social pressure to adopt a group"s perspective in order to be accepted, rather than be rejected, by a group; more of public acceptance. Informational influence: occurs when people internalize the values and beliefs of the group, coming to believe the same things and feel the same ways themselves; person privately accepts group"s norms.
