PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Prisoner Abuse, Deindividuation, Random Assignment

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: ozzy mermut

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Social influence on behaviour - chapter 13 part 1. 13: definition, roles and rules: zimbardo"s prison experiment, social psychology, conformity, obedience to authority: Wind of change scorpions: social psychology, a) definition. Scientific study of how individuals behave, think and feel in social situations. How we are affected by the actual, or implied presence of others. Indoctrination into roles that could not be attributed to personal dispositions: guards devised cruel routines, prisoners broke down, study had to be called off, zimbardo"s experiment (cont"d) Extrapolation to prisoner abuse: process of deindividuation, devaluation of the prisoners, and power differential, prisons are bad soil http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=z0jyx8nwjfq, conformity. Adjusting our behavior or thinking to bring it in line with some group standard: solomon asch"s experiment (early 50"s) People can be led to say black when they see white . 70% agreed at least once with the wrong answer. Group size/ group unanimity/ ambiguity of situation. Emerged from a need to understand the holocaust: obedience to authority: