PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Impulse Control Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, Schizophrenia

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Psychology101: social psychology continued (thursday, november 22, 2012) Obedience to authority: we become obedient to the size and trappings of society. Social order dictates that there is some authority and that authority has power, and we as people would obey them. In response to the holocaust, stanley milgram did one of the most famous psychological experiments. Following the liberation, there was uproar from the world because of the atrocities. During the nuremberg trials, the most common defence was following orders" and that they had no choice". There was then a belief that there was some flaw with german people, and that there was deep research in fascism. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/stanley_milgram. Stanley milgram (psychology experiment): so then he did a study, researching whether or not americans would be able to inflict pain upon another human being. So then there are two participants; one teacher and one student.