PSYC 288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Cognition, Fundamental Attribution Error, Gestalt Psychology
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In class notes 1/12/17 social psych: scienti c study of the way in which peoples thoughts, feelings, behaviors, are in uenced by the other people (real or imagined). This focuses on reason why a certain person acts in a particular way, and does not provide rules to generalize to everyone. Latane and barley- social psychologists: experiments on bystander effect. Effects go group size on the likelihood and speed of response (groups of 2, 3, and 6) People had a phone conversation with other people in groups of 2, 3, and 6. Once the conversation begins an actor pretends to have a seizure and they observed how many people got up to nd an experimenter to help. The experiments also told the people that the phone conversations would be complexity private and no one would be listening in. Also only one participant in each group was a real participant while the others were part of the experiment.
