THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
SOCIAL THEORY
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The participant was either a psychology student or a history student.
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The lines were all different lengths.
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Sometimes the confederates gave the wrong answer and sometimes they gave the correct answer.
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He told the participant that the participants were either psychology students or ancient history students.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term ‘Conformity’ is often defined as: An action that is the succumbing of a person towards a group of people’, consequently conformity is often explained as a result of group pressure, founded from the feeling of rejection or acceptance; shown within Normative Social identity Theory.
Detailed explanation-2: -Social categorization is a theory that attempts to explain how people are separated into groups based on visible characteristics, for example, race, ethnicity, gender.
Detailed explanation-3: -how did Drury test the role of SIT in helping behaviour? He used virtual reality to carry out an experiment.
Detailed explanation-4: -The idea that the self reflects back upon itself; that the I (the knower, the subject) encounters the Me (the known, the object). Reflexivity is a fundamental property of human selfhood.