PSYC-1105EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram Experiment, Cognitive Bias
28 Feb 2017
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Obedience is highest when the figure was nearby and was perceived as an authority figure (face validity) No role models of defiance if everyone sits there and does nothing, you do nothing. Works best if victim is depersonalized (don"t have a relationship with the person) Split participants into prisoners and guards randomly. Police would come into your house and arrest you, do the search, make it realistic as if you were being arrested (and your family does not know you aren"t) Guards became power hungry, beat the prisoners. 80% of those who were prisoner"s in the experiment became a psychologist for prisoner"s once the experiment was over. Many actors picked the wrong choice in this study looking at the length of a line (a) Therefore, the non-actor would say a even though c is clearly the line that is the same size for this study. Example is yawning you yawn when someone else yawns, they are contagious.
