life skills lecture#1
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Agenda: 8/21/14• —-Seating Charts—-
• 1. Recap ‘Little Dog’ article with a discussion focus on Paul Slovic’s experiments and the reacts of the test groups.
• 2. Lecture #1 Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo
• 3. Film: Basic Instincts, Milgram revisited
• HWK: Please have these ready on Friday in the following order.
• Lecture #1 (Milgram), Vocab handout, Lost Dog questions, and syllabus.
• All work needs to be done in pen (blue or black) or typed. No pencil.
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Stanley Milgram and the obedience experiment
• Why is it so many people obey when they feel coerced?
• Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative--even when acting against their own better judgment and desires. Milgram’s classic yet controversial experiment illustrates people's reluctance to confront those who abuse power.
• Shock levels were labeled from 15 to 450 volts.
• Results from the experiment. Sixty-five percent (65%) of the ‘teachers’ were willing to progress to the maximum voltage level.
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Philip Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment
• An ad was placed in the local paper asking for college students to participate in a psychological experiment on the effects of prison life.
• Students were given a mental screening before acceptance to check for normal readings and reactions.
• 24 people total; all males. Divided by a coin flip (half guards, half prisoners)
• Jail was in the basement of the Stanford psychology department
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Philip Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment• Prisoners were arrested in public, charged at the
police station and brought to “Stanford County Jail” for processing
• They were blindfolded in their cells, temporarily.
• Each prisoner was stripped naked, searched and deloused.
• Prisoners were then given a uniform, a number and only referred to by number; hair was later shaved off as a punishment
• Guards were not given any specific rules, only told to maintain order