PSYC 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error, Classical Conditioning
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Is a phenomenon of visual perception in which a stationary, small point of light in an otherwise dark or featureless environment appears to move. A subject was exposed to three lines and supposed to compare them to an original line, and say which line is the same length as the standard one. 5 actors would give wrongs answers, which made the subject unsure about their answer, and more then one third would conform to the actors wrong answer. Birkenhead drill: to calm and give priority to passengers, soldiers were ordered to line up on deck while their ship sank. We will only help if the situation enables us to notice the incident, then to interpret it as an emergency, and finally assume responsibility for helping. At each step the presence of others can turns us ways from the path that leads to helping. Guard turn into abusers; doubters into believers.
