PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Facial Symmetry, Group Polarization, Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill Atkinson

Document Summary

Explain compliance and the principles that are used to facilitate its occurrence: compliance change in behavior elicited by a direct request from another individual who is not an authority figure. Analyze prosocial behavior: bystander apathy the effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping, pluralistic ignorance false impressions of what most other people are thinking or feeling, or how they are responding. Investment model builds on comparison model suggest that commitment, not satisfaction is the single best predictor of relationship longevity: commitment the tendency to maintain a relationship and feel psychologically attached to it. Factors: satisfaction: = (rewards cost) comparison level, quality of alternatives. Describe when attitudes do and do not influence behavior: the presence of others increases our physical and mental alertness, this enhances our tendency to perform our dominant response. If the task is easy or instinctual, our dominant response is usually successful. If the task is hard and requires conscious thought, the response is usually unsuccessful.