PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Proxemics, Lexical Decision Task, Acne Vulgaris

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Psyc 215 lecture 17 normative influence. Student was punished for misusing his cutlery by western standards on. Student from philippines where that is how people use cutlery. School said that in canada people should adopt canadian table manners. Quebec government did not support this and school was sued. Normative influence = influence due to desire to avoid criticism, disapproval, rejection, etc. Prescriptive norms: perceptions of what behaviours are approved of or. Conformity: changing one"s behaviours or beliefs in response to real or frowned upon imagined pressure from others. >now they are popular and a form of expression and art. Not so much but yes once upon a time. >people used to wear them all the time. Fashion changes all the time, but why is it. Our culture has a limited range of options we work with. >fashion: we work within the limited range of fashion options, and if unacceptable to we don"t we receive a negative reaction.