PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stanford Prison Experiment, Fundamental Attribution Error, Deindividuation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Ennis Richard

Document Summary

Outline (videos watched), milgram"s obedience study, zimbardo stanford prison experiment. Social psychology: studies, how we think about and perceive our social world (social thinking and social perception, how we behave toward other people (social relations, how other people influence our behaviours (social influence) Conformity: asch"s line judgement task, when alone, people answered incorrectly on fewer than 1% of trials, when in a group, people answered incorrectly on an average of 33% of trials. Obedience: milgram"s experiment on obedience to authority figures. Instruct people to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience: deliver a shock when a mistake was made, how far would they go, milgram asked psychologists, students etc. to predict level of obedience, ~1% In fact 65% obeyed to highest level of shock value: found that a very high proportion of people were prepared to obey, albeit unwillingly, even if apparently causing serious injury and distress.