PSY 113 1st Edition Lecture 24Outline of Last Lecture I. Social RulesII. AttributionsIII. AttitudesOutline of Current LectureI. PersuasionII. PrejudiceIII. ConformityIV. ComplianceV. Group SettingsCurrent LecturePersuasion-Foot in the door: someone asks for something small, then continues to ask for more and more-Door in the Face: you say no to something big so you say yes to something smallerCognitive Dissonance-when you believe one thing but do anotherStereotyping-people think something is true about a whole group or sect of society and people generalize based on limited pieces of information-we make erroneous judgement based on little informationPrejudice-study done shown that a person who has more stereotypically African American features is more likely to get the death sentenceDiscrimination-social norms or practices or ideas that separate people by different attributes-largest group of people discriminated against: womenClicker Question:-College students often are guilty of prejudice and discrimination attitudes, but rarely admit it:-My answer: Strongly agree. Most people said: Agree, then Strongly agreeSouth Carolina-there was another shooting of a black man by a white police officer. Michael Slagger was the officer’s name.Reducing Prejudice-Elliot Aronson’s Jig Saw Classroom-he took kids of different social and racial groups to increase contact between people of different groups-thought it was a way to reduce prejudice: increase cooperative contactNormative Conformity-Solomon Asch showed in a study that people tend to conform in groupsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-line on left compared to three other lines of different lengths. Everyone else in the group says the wronganswer to see if he goes along with it. He ends up going along with it even though he knows it’s not true-people don’t want to rock the boat even if they don’t agree with itCompliance-when a person just goes along with a request-compliance from an authority figure = obedienceMilgram Study-complying with instructions to give electric shocks (15-450 volts)-Stanley Milgram did a study: people were instructed to give people electric shocks for a scientific study and even though the people were begging them to stop they continued because they were being obedient to an authority figure-2/3 of people were prepared to administer a shock that would be potentially fatal to the learnerSocial Facilitation-the presence of another person helps someone through a challenging task and improves performanceSocial Loafing-some people not pulling their weight in group projectsDeindividuation-people take on a mob mentality, like after a huge win or loss of a sports team-rioting behavior: stealing, breaking things-just going along with what everybody’s doingGroupthink-flawed decision making-people just going along with what others thinkAggression-action with intent to harm-Why?- Biology – testosterone- Frustration – aggression hypothesis- Observational learning and reinforcement-4 types of aggression- Relational – attacking your character, backstabbingAltruism-people helping others-why don’t people help? = Bystander apathy-woman stabbed when 37 others were there but did nothing-When bystanders think “it’s okay if I don’t help because somebody else will.”Answer: diffusion of