PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stanford Prison Experiment, Cognitive Dissonance, Asch Conformity Experiments
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Know the defination of each and be able to apply. Chapter 11: social psychology: the scientific study of how people think about, That is, people give back the kind of treatment they have received from you. The probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. Zimbardo and his students created a simulator prison, there was an ad in the newspaper to find 24 men for a 2 week study on prison life. Undergoing screening to make sure the 24 were. Chapter 12: abnormal behavior: behavior that is deviant, maladaptive or personally distressful over a relatively long period, vulnerability-stress hypothesis: a theory holding the preexisting conditions (genetic characteristics, personally dispositions experiences. Treatments that reduce or eliminate the symptoms of psychological disorders by altering aspects of body functioning. Lithium: the lightest of solid elements, used widely to treat bi polar disorder.
