SOCIAL Approach - KEY ISSUE
Blind obedience to authority in a prison setting
- Created by: sshahedab
- Created on: 26-04-14 14:39
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- KEY ISSUE ABU GHRAIB
- Zimbardo: set up prison situation & allocated roles - soldiers brutal so exp stopped
- Witness to many trials & said they were doing as told & others would have done the same, but usually still found guilty
- Similar exp BBC prison like setting, what happens when one group has power over the other
- Zimbardo: set up prison situation & allocated roles - soldiers brutal so exp stopped
- Blind to own moral codes
- KEY ISSUE ABU GHRAIB
- Zimbardo: set up prison situation & allocated roles - soldiers brutal so exp stopped
- Witness to many trials & said they were doing as told & others would have done the same, but usually still found guilty
- Similar exp BBC prison like setting, what happens when one group has power over the other
- Zimbardo: set up prison situation & allocated roles - soldiers brutal so exp stopped
- KEY ISSUE ABU GHRAIB
- Milgram: 'ordinary' volunteers willing to shock simply bc told to
- Real prison setting: brutality by guards/ soldiers act as guards
- Milgram's pp didn't like shocks but did it under pressure
- Milgram suggested agency theory
- were clearly under moral strain, obedience carried great weight
- Milgram suggested agency theory
- Milgram's pp didn't like shocks but did it under pressure
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