PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 13.1: Milgram Experiment, Prefrontal Cortex, Stanford Prison Experiment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

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Module 13. 1 the power of the situation: social influences on behaviour. Your knowledge of the bystander effect to ensure that you will be helped if you are in an emergency. Social norms: the (usually unwritten) guidelines for how to behave in social contexts: governs our behaviour. Group dynamics: social loafing and social facilitation groups can produce poorer outcomes due to social loafing. Encouragement of personal relationships and social rewarding: feeling like others are not trying very hard, people loaf if other people are loafing, overcome this: regular meetings were peoples progress is discussed and it is made clear the. Solomon asch performed classic experiments on conformity. asked to look at three lines, and choose which was the same as the standard line. People tend to be less likely to conform (cid:449)he(cid:374) . Only one other person is in the vicinity. People tend to be more likely to conform (cid:449)he(cid:374) . There is a larger group in the vicinity.