PSYC-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo, Social Emotions
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Items listed in blue are from the textbook and were not discussed in class. Make sure you also read and study the response piece articles for this section of the course. The study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Social roles: position governed by a set of norms. Know the 3 classic studies of social psychology. Implicit: cultural conventions (ex: do not sing at the top of your lungs on the bus) This gives us a better idea about what could have been going on in: the majority of subjects continued to obey to the end. All of the participants started the study, some dropped out, however the majority continued. Illusion of invulnerability: self-censorship, pressure on dissenters to conform. Changing one"s behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change: what are the four techniques of compliance, foot in the door technique, door in the face technique, lowball techniques.
