PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 70: Fundamental Attribution Error, Group Polarization, Stanford Prison Experiment

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

Audience effect impact of an audience on performance of a task. Social facilitation presence of another enhances performance. Social inhabitation presence of another interferes with performance. Presence of others causes arousal (measure with physiological responses) enhancement of dominant response. Michigan is very good at football, seeing the crowd gets them pumped, rely on dominant response, play better. Msu is terrible at football, seeing the crowd gets them pumped, rely on dominant response, play worse. Social loafing decrease in individual effort when working in group. Make individuals contributions identifiable assign roles. Stanford prison experiment prisons or guards took on roles that took away their individual identity. Bystander effect decrease in helping with multiple bystanders. More people in the group, decrease in helping. Pluralistic ignorance the smoke in the room, no one"s reacting so you think you"re wrong and don"t act like you usually would. Diffusion of responsibility thought someone else would do something.