PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Dissonance, Social Proof, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Catherine Rawn

Document Summary

Is the study of how people interact with the environment. How other people"s beliefs/thoughts/attitudes influence our own (both good and bad) List two lessons of social psychology and summarize research-based examples of each lesson. Deindividulization: when in a crowd or a large group of people, we tend to lose a bit of our self awareness and act in ways we normal would not act. The crowd has such a strong influence on us, we lose our self awareness. Normative social influences: we like to be like so we do what everyone else does, even of we don"t want to. Information social influence: its either we like to be right, or because we don"t know what to do so we do what others do. Describe asch"s conformity paradigm, and explain the key findings. In the study, even though a lot of the participants new the right answer the still choice the wrong answer.