PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Stanford Prison Experiment, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Social thinking: social psychologists focus on the situation a person is in, rather than the person themselves, social psychology scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. Key concepts: attribution theory explaining someone"s behavior by crediting the situation or that person"s disposition. Let"s have you give me a specific example of the following: Watch: the stanford prison study: cognitive dissonance: we often bring our attitudes in line with our actions. Implicit social influence: cultural norms rules for accepted and expected behavior. Asch"s line study: more likely to conform under certain circumstances, normative vs. informational. Informational = when someone just wants to be right: watch: prudential: everybody"s doing it. Over 60% of participants went all the way to the end. Diffusion of responsibility: someone else is going to do it! . Pluralistic ignorance: ambiguous situation and you assume someone must know more about the situation than you do.
