PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cognitive Dissonance, Contact Hypothesis, In-Group Favoritism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

13. 1 the power of the situation: social influences on behaviour. Bad apple easier to believe because we don"t want to believe that we have the same capacity of doing the same thing if in the wrong situation. The situation analysis is never enough to fully explain a behaviour patterns individuals retain free will. To understand social reality, interaction between the person and situation must be understood. B = f(p,e) behaviour is a function of the person and the environment. Motor systems involve the cerebellum and it"s procedural learning functions, which ties together subtle physical coordination with emotional functioning depends on patterns formed through active, embodied earring that forms the procedural knowledge network in cerebellum and other places. Who we are is constantly shaped and patterned by other people. Chameleon effect, describes how people mimic others non-conscioususly, automatically copying others" behaviourists even without realizing it.