PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.1: Groupthink, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Milgram Experiment

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

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13. 1 the power of the situation: social influences on behavior. Mimicry: taking on for ourselves the behaviors, emotional displays, and facial expressions of others. Chameleon effect: people mimic others non-consciously, automatically copying others behaviors even without realizing it. Social norms: guidelines for how to behave in social contexts. Social loafing: occurs when an individual puts less effort into working on a task with others. Low efficacy beliefs: occurs if tasks are too difficult or complex, so people don"t know where to start. Believing that ones contributions are not important to the groups: people cant see how their own input matters to the group. Not caring about the groups outcome: when a person is not personally identified with the group. Feeling like others are not trying very hard: people loaf if they feel like others are loafing. Social facilitation: occurs when ones performance is affected by the presence of others.