PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Robert Sternberg, John Thibaut, Harold Kelley

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

After working through this lesson"s material, you should be able to: Describe under what conditions people conform and why. Identify the factors that lead to increased obedience in milgram"s experiments. Explain the principles underlying each of the four persuasive techniques. Evaluate factors affecting the beginning, continuation, and end of interpersonal relationships. Explain how social exchange theory and the investment model account for why we stay in some relationships and. Describe how the presence of others affects our behaviour. Describe social facilitation and social interference and explain why they occur. Explain groupthink, applying the principles of compliance. Note on the learning objectives for week 18 & 19. The topics covered in week 18 & 19 are numerous and some of them overlap in the study materials. When studying the material for the social psychology section (i. e. , week 18 & 19), you may need to go back and forth between readings of each week to make sure you have all the material.