PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Prisoner Abuse, Deindividuation, Mass Suicide

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Chap . 13: social psychology, deiniion b)roles and rules: zimbardo"s prison experiment, conformity. Asch"s experiments: obedience to authority, milgram"s experiment, foot-in-the-door phenomena, a) social psychology is the scieniic study of how people behave, think and feel in social situaions. And how we are afected by the actual, or implied presence of others. How social pressures can exert signiicant inluence on behaviour (e. g. cults) case of rev. Jim jones where 900 people were led to a mass suicide under his leadership: social roles and rules. Social role: deined patern of behavior that is expected of a person when funcioning in a given seing. Study: 22 subjects screened for psychological maturity and health. Randomly assigned to role of guard or prisoner. Guards: worked 8 hr shit/wore uniform, whitsle and club. Prisoners: stayed in mock prison 24hrs/day and wore degrading uniform. Ater 6 days of simulaion: indoctrinaion into roles that couls not be atributed to [ersonal disposiions.