PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kurt Lewin, Adolf Eichmann, Milgram Experiment
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An invitation to social psychology: uncivil protests against coloured americans changed the views of most white men and women almost overnight. Social psychology: the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviours of individuals in social situations. The power of the situation: arendt argues that any one person is capable of being caught up in the situation. Adolf eichmann, behind the plan to get rid of jews. When interviewed, he was not psychopathic, sadistic, or demented, but actually just another boring person: kurt lewin founder of modern psych, was physicist then psychologist. A person (particle) is subject to their own characteristics (particles can be + or -) as well as the environment (forces like gravity acting on particle). The milgram experiment: stanley milgram took random persons and had them shock another person when he failed to answer a question correctly, slowly upping the voltage as they went.
