PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Extreme Ways, Abu Ghraib, Deindividuation
15 Oct 2017
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Lecture 3: conformity and the power of the situation-social processes, society and culture i: conformity: adjusting our behavior to bring it in line with a group standard http://abcnews. go. com/whatwouldyoudo/video/fall-elevator-19922451, examples of conformity in everyday life: candid camera. When there was a single person who dissented from the majority position: the influence of social roles: the stanford prison experiment https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=aiwzxodxius, fundamental attribution error. Our tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors when explaining another"s behavior: stanford prison in real life: abu graib. If you could do anything humanly possible with complete assurance that you would not be detected or held responsible, what would you do: deindividuation in introductory psychology students and maximum security prisoners. Spying: power of the situation in the news: seattle bridge jumper, looting, rioting, deindividuation: psychological state in which people lose their sense of personal identity and merge anonymously into a group. If the situation is arousing, may act in extreme ways: freebie question.
