PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kurt Lewin, Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: online

Document Summary

Power of the situation: kurt lewin and his two classical statements: Father of the field of social psychology, Very eclectic psychology: conformity and obedience, Wanted to understand how people came to have a certain set of beliefs and why those beliefs were shared widely throughout society, he thought of these beliefs as norms, Took advantage of one of the perceptual illusions called the auto- kinetic effect, wanted to find out from the subjects how much the light moved. If you put one person in this situation, over time they will come up with the same estimate: overtime groups of people come to a consensus estimate of how much the light moved. Of 16 trails, 8 had confederates giving the wrong answer, 70% gave the wrong answer at least once, Majority of people will bow to the group pressure, on any given trial, the average was 1/3 of the people who went along.