PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nonconformist, Mass Hysteria (Band), Conscientious Objector
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Individuals were to identity which line was similar to the original. The person in the 6th position was the only subject in the experience. Of them conformed to the wrong answer. 1st trail: everyone matched to the correct answer. 3rd trial and after: obvious incorrect response: modeling the response same as everyone around you, most subjects start with defining the group but they give up, behavioral leakage. : voices may drop/ heads may shake at the wrong answer: majority of subjects, they will conform at least once, group takes on a total reality. What happens when the stakes are high: milgram: assess our tendency to obey authority. Subjects were pain on their experiment of pain. Learner has to recall correctly to what word was presented in the original stimulus. If wrong, they would give the learner a shock. The experimenter kept telling the teacher to keep going.
