PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bennington College, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Stanford Prison Experiment
16 Aug 2016
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Situationism- theory that the environment has as much effect on a person"s actions as personality. Social roles- unwritten rules of behavior in a given setting or group. Social norms- group"s expectations regarding what is and is not appropriate. Social pressure: tendency for people to adopt behavior and opinions of other group members. Groupthink: poor judgments and bad decisions made by members of groups that are influenced by perceived group consensus/leader"s point of view. When authority figures command the obedience of large groups: ex. Waco, texas mass suicide (influenced & happy about it) Stanley milgram"s obedience study 1963: yale college students tested first, then tested general public, they had to give the actors" a shock" if they got a wrong answer (they weren"t actually shocking them but did not know). Milgram wanted to see how far the college students would go.
