DEP 5057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo, Peer Pressure
30 Mar 2016
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School years: defined in terms of abilities: adolescence: defined in terms of abilities + personality traits, morals, peers, religion, sexual identity, eriksonian stage: identity vs. role confusion. Identity achievement: successful end to struggle with possible roles. Foreclosure: premature identity decision, without critical analysis of roles, in line with parental or societal pressure: negative identity: premature identity decision opposite of parental or societal pressure. Identity diffusion: failure to adopt any one identity, flightiness, apathy. Identity moratorium: experimentation with various roles without commitment. Social groups: affect choice of self-concept or role, affect various decisions sex, drugs, education, etc. In-group/out-group: heterogeneity vs homogeneity, outgroup derogation effect. Peer pressure: conformity to peer group (one"s friends: behavior, dress, attitude, good or bad. Conformity: awareness of differences between self and others, asch studies, line length judgments, mechanisms of conformity, reinforcement, evaluation/normative function of group, comparison function of group. Obedience: obedience: responding to direct request/command, milgram studies. Parental monitoring: strong deterrent for bad behavioral choices.
