22: Social Cognition and Attitudes 24 -25 Conform and Obey

22: Social Cognition and Attitudes 24 -25 Conform and Obey

1) Watch this one reality as it is.. (Links to an external site.)How do you normally

2) Why do we not see PEOPLE as who they actually are – but rather as we want to see them?

3) Use examples from the book to explain Cameron Russell’s talk. (Links to an external site.)

Attitude
Availability heuristic
Explicit attitude
Implicit Association Test
Primed
Representativeness heuristic
4) Using what we know from the class – Please go back to Chapter 1 again – use the Vocab from chapter 1 to explain – Why do be conform? Why do we follow authority? Why don’t some of us?

Collective self-esteem
Group cohesion
Group polarization
Groupthink
Shared mental model
Social facilitation
What makes the lone nut?? (Links to an external site.)This leads to (the second video is hard to watch for me so if you are sensitive just read the transcript). What causes people to be EVIL?(Links to an external site.)

Use examples to explain what the video is about!

USE THE VOCABULARY!!

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Social Cognition and Attitudes

According to Hoffman in his TED talk video titled “Do we see reality as it is?”, it is apparent we do perceive reality in a way that makes us thrive and survive in this world rather than the way it is (Hoffman). Following this, we tend to perceive people the way we want rather than the way they are.

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