PSYA02H3 Chapter 13.1: PSYA02H3 Chapter 13.: Chapter 13 Social Psychology
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Chapter 13. 1 the power of the situation: social. Believes that the tragedy of abu ghraib was a failure of the whole system, involving now just a few sadistic individuals but many social psychological forces that set up a situation that was hard to resist. The danger and stress and exhaustion and cultural barriers that would make it easier to fall into us vs. Them it"s too simplistic to solely blame the individual perpetrators; you have to also look at the situational forces. Studies interaction between the person and the situation. Behaviour is a function of the person and the environment . Challenged freud painted a picture of a person"s behaviour being guided by psychological dynamics. Challenged behaviourism person"s past history of conditioning. Social psychologist focus on the present moment \o/ the situation a person happens to be in at a particular time is a key influence on behaviour. Applied physics! situational forces that predict and determine a person"s behaviour.
