lecture 1 Flashcards
humans are…
innately social, environment has large impact on socialisation.
what shaoes our behaviour?
interaction
why do we as people focus on behaviour of other people
to perceive how they interact and relate to others.
Norma Triplett’s study:
social facilitation experiment based upon the idea that we cycle faster when we cycle with others than when were alone
floyd henry allport emphasises…
study the individual and not the group
after ww2 social psychologists became more focused on…
how groups impact individual behaviour- social influence and conformity
examples of social influence and conformity
jennes’s bean estimation & autokinetic effect experiment
social psychology tends to follow recent events…
such as ww2, kitty genovese murder, 9/11
Kitty genovese
was murdered in broad daylight in New York but no one called for help- led to the phenomenon known as the bystander effect
