PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 31.1: Philip Zimbardo, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Milgram Experiment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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13. 1 the power of the situation: social influence on behaviour. Abu ghraib u. s. military prison- prisoners were sadistically treated and abused by the. The soldiers and situational factors affected the treatment of the prisoners. There was a lack of supervision, a demand of results from interrogation, a sense of constant threat from terrorists, etc. (pg. People are still, in the final analysis, responsible for their behaviour. Situational analysis is not enough to fully explain a behavioural pattern. Psychologists study the interaction between the person and the situation. Kurt lewin was a key founder of social psychology; behaviour is a function of the person and environment, b= (p,e) Argued that the situation a person happens to be in at a particular time is a key influence on behaviour. Lewin argued that behaviour was the consequence of sets of forces acting on them, if the forces were known, the behaviour could be predicted.