PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stanford Prison Experiment
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Boring from work in the animal literature, the rouge test suggests that most human infants recognize their reflection as themselves at about a year and a half. As we grow up, we are always trying to find ourselves as well as revising ourselves. We get more from how people see us. We can be good, evil, neutral, anything. Sometimes as reflected in the reactions of others . An experiment was found in which children were taking candy with a mirror and without a mirror. Without the mirror, they acted like their own selves. Shows that if you see yourself, you don"t do it. Perhaps the most interesting and controversial experiment documenting the potential relevance of context with respect to bringing out certain personality traits is the stanford prison. A fake prison was made to experiment on this (zimbardo) Invited a bunch of people to be part of the study.
