Social Psychology Flashcards
Norman Triplett
- Why do bikers do better with completion then against the clock?
- used children to reel in fishing lines against each other and by them selves.
- most did better against but some dis not.
Social psychology
Scientific study about how we think,influence, and react to others
1-1 ,1-many ,many-1, many-many
Robert Zanjone
- social facilities
- well learned behavior will do better against/ inform of people, novel will performer worst
Social facilitations
prescience of other increases arousal which will enhance dominate response.
Muzafer Sharif
- Auto kinetic effect
- people will be influenced by others when they don’t have a good reference.
Auto kinetic effect
Dots on wall not moving but you think they are.
Solom Asch
Conformity
- hypothesized people wouldn’t be influenced with objective information
Task: students to match up lines
- the more confederates = more influence
Stanley Milgram
- how people follow orders to kill
- deception
- experiment
- “will shock improve learning”
- people being “shocked”were actors
- guy in lab coat is authority
- 2/3 went to the end
Confederates
Fake participants