PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kurt Lewin, Seminary, Gestalt Psychology
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Until 1974, the american psychiatric association held homosexuality was a mental illness. Homosexuality was a necessary and sufficient cause for discharge from the american military until 1994. Until recently, public opinion was strongly against gay marriage. In a brief period of time, public opinion swung toward general support for marriage equality. Social psychology: the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations. In april 2004, exposed american atrocities against iraqi prisoners in the abu ghraib prison near baghdad. Arabs and other iraqis saw this as evidence that us had bad intentions towards arabs. Americans were also ashamed/ appalled by the behavior of these soldiers but made the assumption they were simply rotten apples. Philip zimbardo (1973) paid 24 stanford university undergraduate men of good mental health to participate in a study of simulated prison and randomly assign who would be a guard and who would be a prisoner.
