“The Human Behaviour Experiments”
Thought Questions 1
1.
What was Stanley
Milgram's experiment?
2.
Why did he want
to conduct this experiment?
3.
How far did the
'testers' go?
4.
What did
Milgram's experiment show about obedience to authority?
5.
What role does
“responsibility” play in obedience to authority?
6.
What happened in
the McDonald's in Mount Washington, Kentucky?
7.
What happened to
Matthew Carrington?
8.
What happened to
Kitty Genovese?
1.
Why did the
behaviour of the guards and prisoners in the Stanford prison experiment change
after the second day?
2.
Why did many
prisoners like Prisoner 8612 suffer “extreme stress reactions”?
3.
Why did Christina
Maslack react so strongly to what she saw in the prison experiment?
4.
What does Dr.
Zimbardo mean by the “transformation of human character”?
5.
Why did the Abu
Ghraib guards treat their prisoners so badly?
6.
What does Dr.
Zimbardo say about the idea of a “few bad apples”?
7.
How do most
“ordinary people” react to these kinds of situations, according to Dr.
Zimbardo?
“The Human Behaviour Experiments”
Thought Questions 2
1.
How did Matthew
Carrington die?
2.
Why did his
friends do nothing?
3.
How does the
situation we find ourselves in influence our actions?
4. What was Dr.
Zimbardo’s prison experiment at Stanford University?
5.
What were the
“symbols of power” given to the guards at Stanford?
6.
What were the
prisoners given to wear? How are these
items symbolic?
7.
How did the
groups develop in their roles?
8.
What was the
rebellion that happened the first night of the experiment?
9.
What happened at
Abu Ghraib prison?
“The Human Behaviour Experiments”
Thought Questions 3
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