PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.1: Observational Learning, Social Loafing, Groupthink
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Chapter 13 note: 13. 1 the power of situation: Case: joe darby and abuse of iraqi detainees in the abu ghraib prison. We want to understand how people could ever do such things. We assume that other people who so these things are fundamentally different from us. Philip zimbardo: not the bad apples but the bad barrels. However, situational analysis is never enough to fully explain a behaviour pattern. Social psychologist: study the interaction between the person and the situation. Mimicry: taking on for ourselves the behaviours, emotional displays, and facial expressions of others: good reasons: social species; base of observational learning. Unconscious process: who we are, is constantly shaped and patterned by other people. E. g. chameleon effect: people mimic others non-consciously, automatically copying others" behaviours even without realizing it. People try to use mimicry to their advantage. Social norms: the (usually unwritten) guidelines for how to behave in social context.
