PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Philip Zimbardo, Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram Experiment
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13. 1 the power of the situation: social influences on. Believing that the tragedy of abu ghraib was a failure of the whole system. Many social psychological forces together set up a situation that was hard to. Not the bad apple, but the bad barrels resist. When blaming the individual perpetrators, you have to look at the situational forces as well. Situational forces influence the occurrence of those evil and bad events. Social reality interaction b/t the person and the situation. B = f(p,e) behaviour is a function of the person and the environment challenged the freudian theories (picture of a person"s behaviour guided by psychological dynamics) and behaviourism (ppl"s past histories of conditioning) Social psychologist focused on the present moment (how one"s behaviour is affected by the social forces) Mimicry taking on for ourselves the behaviours, emotional displays, and facial expressions of others. Reasons: humans are social species learning to get along with each other.
