PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Fundamental Attribution Error, Role Conflict, Stanford Prison Experiment

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark W Baldwin

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Psyc 215: roles lecture: role: a set of behaviours expected of someone in a particular position in a social system, ex: occupational roles, family roles, roles in typical interactions, gender roles. Power of situation often is not noticed, leading to fundamental attribution error: prison situations often involves hostility, abusiveness, confrontation. Is that due to the personalities of the individuals: roles and social reality, stanford prison experiment, guards, prisoners: They [the prisoners] seemed to lose touch with the reality of the experiment; they took me so seriously. Looking back, i am impressed by how little i felt for them. I began to feel i was losing my identity i wasn"t that person, i was 416.