PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Stanford Prison Experiment, The Paradigm Shift
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Lower needs on bottom and higher level needs on top. Basic needs must be met before individual can pursue higher level needs. Theory about human nature in general applies to all humans in general. Knowing where people fall on each dimension will help us to predict their behavior across situations and over time. Confederates erroneously agree about the length of the lines. 50-80% of subjects would agree with group on trial. Over 6 days, officers displayed authoritarian measures to control prisoners. Prisoners became passive accepting abuse, punishing other prisoners, etc. B = f (p/e)kurt lewin (the father of social psychology ) People"s subjective perceptions of situations and events are important! Maybe she hates her job and has no time to clean her house but devotes her conscientiousness to the domains in her life that are most important to her (family and friends)
