PSYB10H3 Lecture 6: Obedience and Stanford Prison Experiment
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Lecture 6: great films in social psychology obedience and. Obedience: research carried out at yale university under grants from the national. 1962, experiment @ yale, 40 males, (20-50) in new haven area. Through mail and newspaper ad, education level (not completed high school phds) Memory project: psychologists have developed several methods on how to teach=learn (teaching and learning by canter). One way is that one learns through punishment on learning). Asking some of them to be teachers and learners, see how affective they are and see how affective learning is random assignment through picking a piece of paper. Experiment: the teacher will read a list of words (blue girl, etc). Teacher will read first work (i. e. blue ?) Then they"ll read 4 words and learner needs to remember which one was paired w/ it. If you get it correct, it"s fine and if it"s wrong, you get punished w/ a shock. All subjects were given the same instructions btw.