PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Psych, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychoanalysis

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: O'brien

Document Summary

Aggression is behavior that is intended to harm another individual. Testosterone levels are correlated with aggression in men and women. Conformity is a change in beliefs or behavior that occurs as the result of the presence of the other people around us. Obedience is the tendency to conform to those in authority. People will often conform to behaviors to which they would not otherwise. Guilt for bad behavior is projected onto the authority figure. conform if an authority figure insists. Conformity is highly dependent upon the situation in which the person finds himself. The tendency to perform tasks better or faster in the presence of others is known as social facilitation. The tendency to perform tasks more poorly or more slowly in the presence of others is known as social inhibition. Social loafing is a group process loss that occurs when people do not work as hard in a group as they do when they are working alone.