PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Influence, Social Cognition, Psych

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Social psych: social influence ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396)(cid:859)s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) Remote- 65% were fully obedient (went to the full extent of 450 volts) Proximity- 40% fully obedient (teacher and learner in same room, separated by a meter) Touch proximity- 20% fully obedient (when learner gets something wrong, teacher must place learned arm on electrical grid) Debriefed- told at the end about what they took part in. Only 10% of the teacher were fully obedient if a co-teacher (actor) got up and left to another area of the room. People are more likely to comply to a smaller request if they first turn down a larger one: low-ball technique- after you agree to something, they original terms are made more costly (costly, more money or more demanding) Decision making process model of helping and then wrongly concluding that no help is needed because they believe they others are as equally responsible.