[SOCPSY 1Z03] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 74 pages long Study Guide!

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Tutorials begin week three, not week 2! Implicit idea that we aren"t driven my intrinsic things. One explantation is that good and evil act within the individual. Due to a psychological disposition/condition or it could be genetic, programmed to be aggressive, aggressive gene etc. There is evidence to this belief, stanley milgram"s obedience to authority experiments. He was a social psychologist in 1960s and tried to understand what happened in world war 2. Most people thought it would be 5% of people (psychopaths etc) but he found over 50% of his subjects did. Also found he could change the compliance percentage by changing small things such as how close they are to the subject or if the person demanding was of a higher power. His study suggests that in the right context 66% or 65% of us would do it if he created a situation that put us in this situation. Therefore personality on its own cant explain human behaviour.