Psychology 2070A/B Chapter 8: Chapter #8 - conformity, comliance, obedience.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

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Sherif"s autokinetic effect studies looked at the development of social norms: social norm a rule or guideline in a group of culture about what behaviours are proper and improper. Would see a wide range of perceived movement first but when the participants began making their judgements in groups of two or three the judgements began to converge. But the averages between different groups was still different: some groups would say how far in a group first and then alone. These groups converged rapidly on their own group[ norms. First had the two making judgements together and then just the na ve person alone. Something strange happens after a couple of trials the six student before you all. 12 only 23% of all the participants always gave the correct answer and went against the. 45% of the participants have between 1 and 6 wrong answers; 32% gave between 7 and.