Notes

social psychology notes
How do you notice a rule/norm?
when you break it
Social cognition: things can trigger a change in schema
the notion of breaking a social norm raises anxiety
social situations are uncleared and it is there that both senses play a role]there are different ways in which norms can be transmitted
perception of dot, look at the graph
the presence of physical disorder can be expressed in a number of different ways
the requirement to measure things in a non descriptive measure, raises the question that whether it is reliable or not
Stanford prison experiment
the bottom lines are
study of its kind, and of its time
prompted by people who were worried about dreadful things that might happen around them
the claim is that because people were given some kind of excuse, they reverted to some kind of excuse but they followed the rule meaning that following rules can be dangerous
Raises the question that how in a society of rules and norms of behavior that aims for justice, can someone go off to engage in devious behavior.
a 100 years ago, if you wanted to learn chemistry, biology, physics, etc. You had to know and learn german
Why does social influence occur?
so that people can agree on and do something together
when you are with a group of people, there always seems to be a next step (what do we do next)
some people cannot bear the notion of sitting together in a group and not doing anything is "annoying", you always feel the urge of doing something