SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
VISION SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING
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the negative consequences of groupthink.
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how far people are willing to go when instructed to do something by an authority figure.
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the power that situations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave.
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the boost that social facilitation can provide to individual performance.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The research, known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, has become a classic demonstration of situational power to influence individual attitudes, values and behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dr. Zimbardo was asked to testify for multiple committees investigating topics such as abuse in prison settings. As a result of his testimony for one such committee, a law was passed which requires federal prisons to detain juvenile inmates separately from adult inmates while they are awaiting trial.