PSYCH 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Stanford Prison Experiment, Deindividuation, Foal
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Performance of an action in response to a direct order from an authority figure. Obedience dropped the close the teacher was to the learner . +least when physically had to shock the man. Location did not have much affect on the study results. When following others who refused most refused, but not too much higher than. Recent studies do not suggest a drop in obedience over the last 40 years. Participants were not evil" or particular different from he normal population. Results cannot be explained by gender, race, age, education, ses or country of origin. +the majority of the people in the study violated their own deeply-held values. +they did so only because someone they had never met before said, the. +first point when participants noted conflict between learner and experimenter original study. +when following others who kept going most kept going experimenter requires that you continue.
