PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stanford Prison Experiment, Kurt Lewin, Personality Psychology
9 Mar 2020
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Fundamental dimensions of human behaviour: people vary along these trait dimensions, we seem to love type-ing. This approach is very appealing to us, but we have to be careful. Just because it feels right does not mean it is accurate. Shows how difficult it is to resist group influence: bystander intervention. Stanford prison experiment (zimbardo: adult men recruited from palo alto community, randomly assigned to "prisoner" or "guard, over 6 days, guards displayed authoritarian measures to control prisoners. Prisoners became passive- accepting abuse, punishing other prisoners, etc. Two of us may interpret the situation in 2 different ways: rise of cognitive psychology. Ethical issues about creating (poweful) situations: e. g. Milgram"s experiements -- you didn"t need approval before. She may be conscientious about some things but not all. Stronger and more mature so they stand out: get more play time because they"re older. If you get more time, you get better. If you get better, you get more time.
