PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Lawn Sign, Ethnocentrism, Observational Learning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

The power of the situation: part 2: obedience to authority, a) milgram"s experiment, foot-in-the-door phenomena, attribution error, prejudice, roots of prejudice, terrorism, how it can be overcome. Tendency to obey: contributing factors: 1) high status of authority figure, 2) belief authority is responsible for their actions, 3) absence of cleat-cut point to switch to disobedience, 4) gradual nature of many obedience situations. Definition: get people to comply to small requests, and you will be more likely to have them comply to: b) foot-in-the-door greater requests later. Lawn sings: 17% only say yes : asked the other half if they would put a sticker on their car, when a smaller request is presented first: #2 (came again) lawn sign: 76% now say yes : attribution error. Definition: we favour internal attribution in explaining others" behaviour (i. e. we blame them for their misfortune) Self-serving bias: we make internal attribution for out successes, and external attribution for our setbacks.