PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Ion, Simple Explanation, Realistic Conflict Theory

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1030H
• Professor: Elizabeth Nisbet

Document Summary

Overview: behaviour in social and cultural context: roles and rules, social influences on beliefs, group conflict and prejudice. Roles and rules: defining norms and roles, the obedience study, the prison study, the power of roles. The obedience study: stanley milgram and coworkers investigated whether people would follow orders, even when the order violated their ethical standards, most people were far more obedient than anyone expected. Every single participant complied with at least some orders to shock another person. 2/3 shocked the learner to the full extent: results are controversial and have generated much research on violence and obedience. Social influences on beliefs: defining social cognition, attributions, attitudes. Social cognition: an area in social psychology concerned with social influences on thought, memory, perception and other cognitive processes, researchers are interested in how people"s perceptions of themselves and others affect their relationships, thoughts, beliefs and values. Individuals in groups: conformity, groupthink, the anonymous crowd, disobedience and dissent.