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Riddle. There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why?. No, it has nothing to do with a DRAGON!. Riddle ANSWER.
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Riddle • There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and • married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why? No, it has nothing to do with a DRAGON!
Riddle ANSWER • Answer- His father was in front of him when he was born, so he was born before him. His mother died giving birth to him. And he grew up to be a minister and married his sister at her ceremony.
The number 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents how many different tasting pickles they have made
If you put a goldfish in the dark for a week it will turn white and no longer be ‘’gold’’
It takes only 7 pounds of pressure to bite or rip an ear off
Conformity • Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. How did you feel the first time someone asked you to smoke?
Asch Conformity Experiments • series of studies that demonstrated the power of conformity in groups. These are also known as the "Asch Paradigm".
Asch Conformity Experiments • In the basic Asch paradigm, the participants — the real subject and the confederates — were all seated in a classroom. They were asked a variety of questions about the lines such as how long is A, compare the length of A to an everyday object, which line was longer than the other, which lines were the same length, etc. The group was told to announce their answers to each question out loud. The confederates always provided their answers before the study participant, and always gave the same answer as each other. They answered a few questions correctly but eventually began providing incorrect responses.
Conditions that Strengthen Conformity • One is made to feel incompetent • The group is at least three people • The group is unanimous • One admires the group’s status • One had made no prior commitment • The person is observed
Normative Social Influence Influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disappointment Informational Social Influence Influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality Reasons for Conforming
Obedience Milgram’s Experiments
What did we learn from Asch & Milgram? • Ordinary people can do shocking things.
Group Influence on Behavior Lets look at how groups effect our behavior.
Social Facilitation • Improved performance of tasks in the presence of others. • Occurs with simple or well learned tasks. • Not with tasks that are difficult or not yet mastered.
Yerkes- Dodson Law • There is an optimal level of arousal for the best performance of any task: • easy tasks--relatively high • difficult tasks--low arousal • other tasks--moderate level
Social Loafing • The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling efforts toward a common goal than if they were individually accountable.
Deindividuation • The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
Group Polarization • The concept that a group’s attitude is one of extremes and rarely moderate. As a group, both the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan are more extreme than the average individual in the group.
Groupthink • The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides common sense. How could the hazing incident at Northbrook High School be an example of groupthink?
We also influence ourselves The Power of the Individual can be stronger than a group.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies • Occurs when one person’s belief about others leads one to act in ways that induce the others to appear to confirm the belief. If you think someone finds you attractive, they more likely will!!!
