PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: 60 Minutes Ii, Stanford Prison Experiment, American Psychiatric Association
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Chapter 1 - an invitation to social psychology: alan turing. This (cid:862)do(cid:374)"t ask, do(cid:374)"t tell(cid:863) (cid:396)uli(cid:374)g (cid:449)as o(cid:448)e(cid:396)tu(cid:396)(cid:374)ed in 2011 by president obama, and now it is possible for openly gay individuals to serve in the armed forces. Characterizing social psychology: parables being sent through generation to generation, social psychologists go beyond folk wisdom and try to establish a scientific basis for understanding human behavior. Social psychology can be defined as the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations. Explaining behaviour: cbs broadcast a story on 60 minutes ii that exposed american atrocities against iraqi prisoners in the abu ghraib prison near baghdad. Cbs showed photos of naked prisoners with plastic bags over their heads, stacked up in a pyramid, and surrounded by laughing male and female. Other photos showed hooded prisoners standing on narrow pedestals with their arms stretched out and electric wires attached to their bodies.