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Study Guide: Pages 267-276 and 303-304 in Chapter 8 "Behavior
in Social and Cultural Context" and related classes
Facts and concepts to understand
- Power of the situation in determining behavior
- Effects of social roles
- Prison study-- methods, results
- What do the results of the prison study tell us about human behavior?
- Why did Milgram become interested in studying obedience to malevolent
authority?
- Milgram's obedience studies-- purpose, methods, results
- What did experts predict about the results of Milgram's studies?
- In Milgram's original study, what % of subjects were fully obedient?
(NOTE: this is different than the film which shows a slight variation
of the original study)
- Follow-up studies to Milgram's original study
- What effect did changing various conditions have on obedience in Milgrams
studies?
- Crimes of obedience
- Why are people so obedient to malevolent authority?
- Banality of evil
Terms
- social psychology
- situation
- malevolent authority
- Adolph Eichmann
- Milgram
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