PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Contact Hypothesis, Milgram Experiment, Cable Television

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Kurt lewin believed behaviour is a function of the person and the environment; to fully understand social reality, psychologists need to study the interaction between the person and the situation. Situational forces and individual characteristics that determine human behaviour: Mimicry: taking on for ourselves the behaviours, emotional displays, and facial expressions of others we coordinate our behaviour with other people (evolutionary advantage) Some of our behavioural coordination occurs through the explicit levels of consciousness, large amount is determined through implicit, unconscious process. This implicit unconscious level of our awareness, of who we are, is constantly shaped and patterned by other people. Describes how people mimic others unconsciously, automatically copying others behaviours even without realizing it (it"s been found mimicking ones behaviour tends to make them like you more) Social norms (unwritten guidelines for how to behave in social contexts) guide our behaviour without us knowing. Social facilitation: occurs when ones performance is affected by the presence of others.