June 25‚ 2012‚ from Helium- Where Knowledge Rules: http://www.helium.com/items/825101-understanding-gang-mentality-and-why-people- Kowalski‚ R.‚ & Westen‚ D. (2011). Psychology (6th ed.). Hoboken‚ NJ: Wiley. McLeod‚ S. (2008). Hofling Obedience Experiment. Retrieved June 25‚ 2012‚ from SimplyPsychology: http://www.simplypsychology.org/hofling-obedience.html Velden‚ F. S. (2007). Majority and Minority influence in Group Negotiations: The Moderating Effects of Social Motivation and Decision Rules
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is a journal article reporting Solomon Asch’s experiment on “How‚ and to what extent‚ do social forces constrain people’s opinions and attitudes?” (Asch‚ 20) Although conformity is inevitable‚ is there a possibility of indifference because of personality‚ education and social pressures? “Social influences shape every person’s practices‚ judgments and beliefs are a truism to which anyone will readily assent.” (Asch‚ 20) Solomon Asch’s experiments in the 1950’s set a line up for how people in the
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Philip Zimbardo’s infamous study: the Stanford Prison Experiment is another positive example of circumstantial determinants overriding personality. The Stanford Prison Experiment is an experiment designed to determine the effect of a medley of situational variables on the behavior of subjects roleplaying prisoners and guards in a simulated prison environment. In his subsequent novel‚ The Lucifer Effect‚ Zimbardo stated that originally‚ the experiment intended to discern “what people bring into a prison
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related experiment‚ in which the students should participate‚ plus two or three lessons to talk about research‚ some phenomena and findings concerning “The Psychology of Persuasion”‚ summed up and shortened as “Cialdini’s Weapons”. I am referring to Robert B. Cialdini (Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1999‚ 2nd edition)) and several scientific articles (see Sources). 1. The Experiment1 One approach to understanding psychological phenomena is participation in an experiment. Let the
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Confounding variables- work their way into an experiment which may screw it up without us being accountable for them Diffusion: The spread of a cultural trait from one society to another through social contact Acculturation: The process of contact‚ exposure‚ and exchange of ideas between different cultures that results in adaptations and changes to both groups Wednesday September 5‚ 2012 Strip-Search Case Closed? Summary: An 18 year old girl with worked at McDonalds was forced to strip
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involves publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing is a. Compliance b. Acceptance c. Obedience d. Reactance Answer: a 4. According to the text‚ the most famous and controversial experiments of social psychology are a. Asch’s conformity ecperiment. b. Milgram’s obedience experiments. c. Smith and Dunn’s reactance experiments. d. Berg’s compliance experiments. Answer: b 5. The training of tortures by the military junta in Greece illustrates a. The compliance effect. b
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Identification of Dilemma George is a college student working a summer job on the overnight shift in the production of milkshake mix at Eastern Dairy. The job is highly important to him because he is making great money in comparison to previous experiences and he is intending to save the money to help cover expenses once he and his significant other‚ Cathy‚ get married and he returns to school. That said‚ the job is not one he intends to keep long-term as he plans to only stay through the summer
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there are heroes around when in fact‚ yes they are around‚ but they are a quickly dying breed. My conclusion is that by uniting everyone and seeing each other as another human life regardless of being anonymous or not that maybe experiments like the Stanford experiment might not have needed to be done. Phillip Zimbardo’s‚ You Can’t be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel has many valid points. The first point that could be considered obvious is the question that he prose’s is‚ “Why do good people
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People sometimes act in ways they know to be wrong or unethical because they see people of a higher authority do it. For example‚ In Milgram’s obedience experiment‚ test subjects who were referred to as the “teacher‚” were told to give an electric shock to a complete stranger who was referred to as the “student‚” if they got an answer wrong on a test. The test subject was told the shock would get increasingly more dangerous each time the student got the answer wrong. When the teacher wanted to stop
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protect themselves before protecting a stranger. Stanley Milgram put a study together to prove that Germans are more likely to be obedient to authority then American are. The study was called “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger‚ Would You? Probably.” Milgram explains the character aspects of why people listen to authority and why they afraid not to. Social structure and the organization of society have a powerful affect on people. Milgrams set out to New Haven to start the study ad later on
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