PSYCH 13 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Homicide, Ethnocentrism, Pluralistic Ignorance
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Chapter 9 outline: chapter prologue, the decision to invade iraq is discussed as a lead in to the importance of group decisions. Roles facilitate social interaction: roles also may have a cost. First, adopting a role can lead people to temporarily lose their personal identities. For example, zimbardo and his colleagues set up a mock prison in the basement of the stanford psychology department. They selected normal, healthy young men and randomly assigned them to be prisoners or guards. Group diversity: groups tend to be homogenous. This is because people gravitate toward groups of similar others and because individuals in groups tend to conform to group norms. 1 | s o c i a l p s y c h o l o g y - e x a m 3 s t u d y g u i d e. In what ways do individuals perform differently when others are around: sometimes just having other people around affects behavior.
