PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram, Strip Search
23 Nov 2017
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Documentary: human behaviour experiments: stanley milgram experiment: Processes: a person in icts shock on another person, based on commands from an authority gure. He told the people behaviour that people learn better if they are punished for making mistakes. Studied how the germans tortured the jews. Objective: how ordinary people can act inhumanely, under what conditions a person would obey authority. The intensity of the shock varied, the person was instructed to give shocks in increasing order as mistakes occur. The subjects obeyed the authority gure, and had di erent reactions, some laughed, some enjoyed it If you have the subject felt they were not responsible, they were more likely to obey the commands, and trigger the shock. Strip search in fast food restaurants, the victims obeyed, which is puzzling. An annonymous caller pretedned to be an o cer, and then asked for a strip search of employees. More than one fast food joint: bystander e ect:
