PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Group Decision-Making, No. 5 Group Raf, Milgram Experiment
27 Nov 2012
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Power of social roles--film: quiet rage-stanford prison experiment. No psychological differences between the students selected to be guards and those to be prisoners. First day: the prisoners were picked up in a cop car and taken to prison. But they still didn"t feel like prisoners and the guards still didn"t feel superior. Day 2: the prisoners started to rebel and the guards started to take measures. Day 3: the guards started to be more strict and the prisoners were now becoming more rebellious. Guards- kind and sympathetic, normal, or sadistic. Social groups, social norms, and how cohesive the group is. The cohesiveness of a groups affects how people in the group like each other. Social facilitation- focus on how the presence of others affects our performance. If you perform something in front of others you will perform it better than if you practiced by you self. Something the presence of others inhibits your performance.
