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1 Chapter 3, 4

2 Chapter 8

3 Why are some of the boys in LOTF doing such savage, or evil, things?

4 Do you think these boys are innately savage or are their behaviors caused by outside influence?

5 Consider some social factors
OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY POWER OF SITUATION CONFORMITY

6 CONFORMITY

7 “yielding to group pressures”
CONFORMITY IS is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. Or simply… “yielding to group pressures” Compliance: a change in behavior, but not attitude, due to the results of social pressure. Acceptance: a change in both behavior and attitude.

8 Line Judgment Experiments
Stimulus A B C

9 Line Judgment Experiment
Asch (1951;1956) completed two studies that demonstrate how easily conformity occurs 1 Subject is brought into lab with 6-8 confederates Asked to make a judgment about line length Ordinarily subjects make mistakes 1% of the time, in this experiment 36.8% of the time

10 How did the boys submit to conformity?

11 OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY

12 Milgram: Obedience to Authority
Participants brought into “experiment on learning through punishment”. Participant is always the “teacher,”. Every time that the learner is wrong on a word recognition task the teacher must shock the l

13 65% of the subjects went to the end, even those that protested

14 POWER OF THE SITUTION

15 Stanford Prison Experiment:
Conducted in the basement of the Stanford Psychology Department. Volunteers were randomly assigned to play the role of guards and prisoners in a mock prison in the basement. Both prisoners and guards rapidly adapted to their assigned roles, and lead to genuinely dangerous and psychologically damaging situations

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17 Experiment was abandoned after just six days because of the prisoners’ pathological reactions.
But remember these were all just normal people? What happened?

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20 Find an example of each of these psychological concepts in LOTF
OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY POWER OF SITUATION CONFORMITY …AND AND EXAMPLE THAT SHOWS THE BOYS ARE INNATELY SAVAGE

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