Tag: Social psychological constructs

Analyze, and discuss the “psychology of everyday life”. Movies often highlight or utilize many social psychological principles that are covered in this course. Watch your favorite movie, or any movie for that matter, and try to identify a number of the topics, issues, and/or phenomena discussed in this course.

The movie I pick is the “Color Purple”

Movie Review- Movies are an easy way to spot, analyze, and discuss the “psychology of everyday life”. Movies often highlight or utilize many social psychological principles that are covered in this course. Watch your favorite movie, or any movie for that matter, and try to identify a number of the topics, issues, and/or phenomena discussed in this course.

Watch a movie. Write a “social psychological” review of the movie. Describe the movie and how it relates to concepts found in at least 2 different chapters in the book.

Write a 5 page paper (12 inch font, double spaced). Review the Movie. Cover at least two chapters from the text

 

What social psychological constructs did the study reveal?Was it ethical to do the prison study in the way that Zimbardo conducted it? Why or why not? Explain your position substantively.

Social Psychology & Ethics

One of the most famous psychological experiments of all time, was conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues at Stanford University. To read more of the details of this experiment, visit http://www.prisonexp.org. Take some time to watch the video on the Zimbardo Prison Experiment by clicking here.

After reading about the experiment, exploring the website and watching the video, answer the following:

Was it ethical to do the prison study in the way that Zimbardo conducted it? Why or why not? Explain your position substantively.

What social psychological constructs did the study reveal? Would the same information have been learned if the study had been conducted differently? If yes, how might you adapt the study to address ethical concerns and still obtain results relevant to our understanding of behavior in social settings?

How do the social psychology concepts of conformity and the power of the social situation that we are studying this week relate to what happened during the brief period of time that the prison study ran. Where in the description of how the study unfolded did we see evidence of these concepts?