PSYC340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Social Inequality, Prenatal Development, Social Facilitation
30 Mar 2016
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Ch 11: applying social psychology to the criminal justice system. Criminal acts may be from a social ecological perspecive: result of an interacion between the person and environment. An individual may be compleeed to ofend only in the presence of an environmental siumulus that acts as a trigger. Difusion of responsibility: more likely to occur when: When the vicim is perceived to be diferent to the potenial helper. Suggests people under the cover of anonymity in which their idenityies are concealed, may deliberately choose to engage in behaviour about which they might otherwise be inhibited. Social facilitaion: informs us that a person"s performance on a well-learned task will be enhanced by the heightened arousal caused by the presence of others. Frustraion agression hypothesis: frustraion (anything that blocks a person from ataining a goal) may have been a trigger for aggressive behaviour in the presence of a new set of potenial vicim.
