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14 Cards in this Set
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Who was the guy that was experimented in social psychology?
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Tommy Whitton
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Which prison was Tommy sent to?
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Stanford county prison
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What are some forms of sexual abuse in the prison?
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endless push ups, jumping jacks, staying naked in solitary confinement, cleaning toilets with bare hands
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What was the experiment known as?
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Stanford prison experiment
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What kind of people were selected?
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law abiding, emotionaly stable, physically healthy, normal average no all psychological measures
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How did the students change?
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normal pacifist became aggressive and even sadistic (guards)... prisoners become pathologic (mentally deflected/ obsessisve)
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HOw long did the research go and what was its impact?"
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created a real prison image in the minds of the jailors and guards. 6 days...
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lesson of the stanford prison experiment
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never underestimate the power of a bad situation to overwhelm the personalites and good upbringing of even the best and brightest among us....
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What is social psychology?>
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the field that investigates how individuals affect each other...
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Social psychology
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how people's thoughts, feelings, perceptions, motives, and behavior are influenced by interactions with others... the effects of social variable sand cognitions on individual behavior and social interactions
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social context IMPORTANT
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the comibination of 1) people, 2) activities and interactions among people 3) the setting in which behavior occurs 4)the expectations and social norms governing behavior in that setting
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stanford prison experiment
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underscores the social situations to control human behavior
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3 great themes in social psychology
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1.the power of social situations to control human behavior
2. the construction of subjective reality 3. roots of violence |
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objective reality vs subjective reality
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we dont respond to our objective reality we respond to our subjective reality of our mind
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