PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Milgram Experiment, Informed Consent, Gossip
24 Dec 2015
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How much pain will ordinary person inflict on stranger, when. Conflict, health of learner vs. authority of instructor. Female, expected results did not measure to measured. Was it ethical to show this video, to replicate the milgram instructed? results. Ethics = a sys of moral principles. (social construction) Rules of practice in respect to 1 class of human actions (as political/social ethics) Is behavior normal, or not? (normalization = social construction) Can detain u, cannot* leave (on = form1) Problem psychiatric diagnoses dms, psychiatric bible w diagnostic categories. *mental illnesses = best seen as social constructions. Expect variation across cultures in ideas with what = right and wrong. Example 1: rape/murder/incest vs. witchcraft/incest cross- cultural variation in what = right and wrong. As psychologist, (look at city), becomes apparent bc interface w people of different cultures & not everyone = from same cultural reference. Example 2: girl w parents iq model new cans.
