PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Muzafer Sherif, Ingroups And Outgroups, Psych
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Lecture 15: 19th october 2016: social influence: conformity maintaining or changing one"s behavior to due to the real or imagined influence of others. Norms social standards of behavior and thought that are set by a group. They are often applicable in every possible situation. Autokinetic effect example of muzafer sherif when you place someone in a very dark room with a hanging light tell them to stare at the light and tell researcher how much the light moved. Everyone reports some sort of movement, but there is variation in how much the light is reported to movement. Suggestion that it could be moving eyes play tricks brain is looking for cues for movement perceive movement. But everyone sees movement when it wasn"t there, range of movement was ambiguous, range of reported movement was huge. Sherif grouped three types of people little, moderate, a lot.
