PSY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Allen Funt, Candid Camera, Social Influence
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How we think and behave is often influenced by other people. Confederate : a part of the research study, they were trained in advance. they are a plant in the study and have been briefed beforehand. When people follow direct commands, usually from an authority figure. Walk into a research lab and greated by an experimenter you are introduced to a 65 year old man as well. As the learner you are going to be asked questions, if you get it wrong you are going to send an electric shock to the learner. you are in a room with the experimenter. Voltage scale the old man starts screaming. and the experimenter says keep. Then they stop screaming and the experimenter still says it must go on going . Why did people obey? way to xxx which is basically death. How many people out of 100 people went all the way to xxx - 65% went all the.
