PSYCH235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stanford Prison Experiment, Safe Sex, Condom
11 Feb 2016
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Affective sources emotionally based: evaluative conditioning association with positive/negative events, mere exposure repeated contact increases liking. Behavioural sources will cheat think about it: do attitudes predict behaviour, we pay attention to others" attitudes to predict their behaviour, disconnection: people"s attitudes on cheating will not necessarily determine who. Cognitive sources how you feel about something, what you know about it, what you. Zimbardo"s stanford prison experiment (1971): randomly assigned college students to be prisoners or guards, prisoners became submissive, guards were aggressive, playing a role, have attitudes and feelings. Asked a person to assign tasks for themselves, and another participant. Choices were a fun task where you have the chance to earn , or a dull, uninteresting task where you have no chances to earn money. 5% believed assigning appealing task to self and dull task to other participant was the most moral thing to do. When done, 80% of people assigned the fun task to themselves.
