Friday, 6 December 2019

7/10 Human Behavior Experiment Thought Questions


“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?


“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
 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?

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