PSYC 215 Chapter : BOOK NOTES- Social Psychology.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Michael Sullivan

Document Summary

Social psychology: the scientific study of how people affect and are affected by others. It can help you make sense of your own social world. One of the first social psychology experiments: norman triplett instinct which increases nervous energy and thereby enhances performance. The presence of another bicycle rider releases the competitive. Build a competition machine children winded up a fishing reel and they found that children working side by side others enhanced performance compared to working alone. Max ringelmann measured the amount of effort exerted by each participant. He had men pull on a rope alone and as part of a group and he. As group size increased amount of effort decreased on group projects. This study can explain why people tend to slack off when working. These 2 studies show the complete opposite this is to show that social behavior is complicated! Psychology was divided into 2 camps learning principles such as reward and punishment.