Study Questions Number 16 Chapter 8. Behavior in Social and Cultural Context (266-283)

Student Name _____________________ Date due: 10-18-04 Introduction to Psychology 101 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.

1.	What fallacy did Adolph Eichman refer to shortly before his execution? (268)
2.	Define social norms, social roles, and culture. (269)
3.	Before doing the study, Milgram asked a number of psychiatrists, students, and middle-class adults how many people they thought would "go all the way" to XXX, danger high voltage on orders from the researcher. What did those people predict? What was the actual outcome from the destructive obedience studies? What does that say, do you think, about your susceptibility to unethical orders from authorities? (271)
4.	According to Stanley Milgram, destructive obedience is not due to an evil personality. Then what did Milgram attribute destructive obedience to? (270-272)
5.	The fact that, in the Zimbardo prison experiment, men were randomly assigned to be prisoners or guards allows one to draw what kind of conclusions about the importance of personality in the behavior of the prison guards? You are asked to make an inference to answer this question.
6.	What general conclusion is drawn about the Milgram destructive obedience study and the Zimbardo prison study? (272-273)
7.	According to Kelman and Hamilton (1989) and others, what four factors cause people to obey when they would rather not? Name and describe each. (274-276)
8.	Define the fundamental attribution error, self-serving bias, and just world hypothesis. (277-278)
9.	If a friend loses his job, if a woman is raped, if a prisoner is tortured, explain why blaming the victim occurs. (278)
10.	What are three good ways to influence attitudes? (281)
11.	What are the key processes of coercive persuasion? (282)