PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Solomon Asch, Optical Illusion, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Social psychology: social cognition and social influence (modules. Feelings, ideas, and beliefs that affect how we approach and react to other people, objects, and events. Boring task experiment (festinger & carlsmith, 1959): boring task for 1 hour, then persuade someone the task was interesting. Half were paid (. 50), other half () to do this. Conflicting cognitions: then asked to rate the task, which group rated the task more positively? ( or ?, group rated more positively. No external justification, so internalized the expressed (cid:498)i told someone that the task was interesting(cid:499), and (cid:498)i actually found it boring. (cid:499: group had external justification; less (cid:498)dissonance(cid:499, e. g. (cid:498)induced hypocrisy(cid:499) condom use attitude. Change in behavior to fit in with a group. Reasons: misunderstood the test; optical illusion; avoid making a scene. Normative: to fit in: approval or belonging, asch conformity studies. Informational: others provide information about the world: e. g. eating at a busier restaurant, asch conformity studies.