1. Class Starter #1 ► You are going to complete 6 tasks.

2. ► 5. Now we are going to do the class cheer in unison. Yell it as loud as you can 3 times. ► “We’ve got psych spirit yes we do, we’ve got psych spirit how ‘bout you?”

3. Freewrite (at least ½ page) ► What are some attributes you expect of an authority figure? ► Why do we obey authority? ► Should we always obey authority? ► How does a person get power or authority? ► Describe what society would be like without authority.

4. When you look at the picture, what is the first image you see?

5. Stanley Milgram Experiment Milgram set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by someone in authority.

6. Would you electrocute a stranger if Hitler asked you to? ► Could the Holocaust occur again in America? ► The shocking answers by Stanley Milgram (1963) ► With 1,000 ordinary people who answered his ad.

7. 1,000 people responded No college students. 20-50 years old Wanted: ordinary people Factory workers, businessmen, clerks,

8. ► The “Learner” gets attached to shocking device.

9. “Teacher” increases shocks. Dissents, but OBEYS authority.

10. Who would go all the way and administer 450 volts (XXX highest setting)?

11. Milgram asked 40 psychologists what % would go all the way? They said 1%. (1% of Americans are sadistic & this is sadistic behavior.) They could not have been more wrong. 2/3rds gave the 450 volts in the first study. Milgram did 16 similar studies. In the last study, 90% of the participants go all the way. Women no different from men.

12. Real World Parallels ► This is research. What is the validity of this experiment? How can you apply it to real world situations?

13. Jim Jones persuaded his followers to commit mass suicide. They died because of their blind obedience to authority. Modern “Lucifer Effect”

14. Stanford Prison Experiment (1973)

15. Homework ► At my school webpage, view the Stanford Prison Experiment Power point http://www.prisonexp.org/. Take notes. Describe the experiment, the participants, what happened during the experiment, your opinion of the experiment. Was it ethical? http://www.prisonexp.org/ ► In class tomorrow we will watch the video of the experiment. Attach your notes to the worksheet I give you in class.