PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
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Stanford Prison Experiment
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Milgram Experiment
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Harlow’s Monkey Experiments
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Robbers Cave Experiment
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Stanford Prison Experiment Zimbardo and his colleagues (1973) were interested in finding out whether the brutality reported among guards in American prisons was due to the sadistic personalities of the guards (i.e., dispositional) or had more to do with the prison environment (i.e., situational).
Detailed explanation-2: -Significance. The Stanford Prison Experiment has become one of psychology’s most dramatic illustrations of how good people can be transformed into perpetrators of evil, and healthy people can begin to experience pathological reactions-traceable to situational forces.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Stanford prison experiment demonstrated the power of social roles, norms, and scripts in affecting human behavior. The guards and prisoners enacted their social roles by engaging in behaviors appropriate to the roles: The guards gave orders and the prisoners followed orders.