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inoculation effect
motivates someone to defend their beliefs more strongly and gives them practice in defending those beliefs
what does inoculation work to prevent?
persuasion
what happens to more vulnerable beliefs or ones you were never questioned about?
you may have a harder time rejecting them
brainwashing
The most extreme ways to change attitudes are physical torture and psychological gamesmanship
first step in brainwashing
includes stripping away all identity of the person and introducing them to intense social pressure and physical stress
example of the first step of brainwashing
Prison... isolated from everyone with no social support system
what do some believe brainwashing is?
an intense form of persuasion
why do people in religious cults have trouble readjusting to life after leaving the cult?
they were so cut off from the outside world
What's something Psychologist Soloman Ash found out about people conforming?
people will conform to other people's beliefs even if they disagree just to “fit in”
in Ash's experiment why were the yielders wrong?
although they knew which line was correct but they chose a different one due to the group pressure
in Ash's experiment why were the independents right?
they chose what they believed was the right one and did not conform to the group's pressure
whats something a lot of people hold over you?
influence on your attitudes and actions
influence can be....
direct or indirect
Obedience
obeying authorities can be useful and deconstructive
examples of positive and useful authorities
doctors and firefighters in an emergency
examples of negative authorities
German Nazism and American atrocities in Vietnam
why did subjects in the shock experiment obey authority? they could've easily walked out with no consequences
these people had it so ingrained in their brains that they needed to listen to this legitimate source of authority
what was the reason for the great level of compliance among the teachers?
happened because the experimenter was seen as a high level of authority who knew what he was doing and so they listened obediently even when it was contradictory to their moral beliefs
what happened in the prisoner guards and prisoner experiment when the prisoners became very stressed out from being treated so cruelley?
These people seemed to discard their personalities and embody the roles they were given and adapted to the environment
what happens if a person has a slight attack on their beliefs?
they are more educated to work up against a big attack
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