PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram Experiment, Social Inhibition
30 Nov 2016
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Obedience : behavior may go beyond personal values. Some cultures are more obedient than others. 100% people willing to give mild electric shock. 70% of people continued beyond danger zone. Follow up experiment - when he moved office to sketchy downtown people started to question his authority. Improved performance of some tasks in the presence of others. People do things better that they know (ex: riding bike, running marathon) If you don"t know how to do tasks you will do it worse (ex: test answers you don"t know) called social inhibition. Occurs with simple or well-learned tasks but not with tasks that are difficult or you haven"t yet mastered. Social inhibition : decreased performance of some tasks in the presence of others (stagefright) Yerkes-dodson law: explains stage fright, rising to the challenge , maybe even home field advantage. Groupthink : you have a desire for harmony, and it overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives.
