Discussion Blog: Attitudes
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“The definition of attitude provided by David Myers (the author of several Introduction to Psychology textbooks) reads Attitudes are feelings, based on our beliefs, that predispose our reactions to objects, people, and events.” Zimbardo’s prison experiment illustrates all of the variables found in this definition. Attitudes affect actions: Once students were assigned roles and given the “tools and clothing or costumes” associated with those roles, they began to behave in the way they thought was befitting of the roles (the guards acted aggressive and authoritative, and the prisoners acted submissive or subordinated.) But then, the play-acting began to reveal characteristics in the participants, as their role-playing became part of who they were. Actions affected attitudes: Some students demonstrated behaviors that were uncharacteristic of their usual behaviors because they had accepted their experiment roles as an extension of themselves. Once experiment participants crossed the line into questionable territory with their behaviors (guards became abusers, prisoners became collaborators or believers), it created a tension that their attitudes and actions weren’t coinciding (called cognitive dissonance). To relieve this, the participants changed their attitudes to rationalize their behaviors.”
Please watch the following clip on the Stanford Prison Study and then follow the instructions.
After watching the video, please create a Blog addressing the following questions:
What did Zimbardo’s study show?
During the experiment, how did the prisoner and guards conform to their roles? How did even Zimbardo, the psychologist conducting the experiment, conform to his role as a prison superintendent?
What are Zimbardo’s conclusions about human behavior based on this experiment?
In 2003, US soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib, 20 miles west of Baghdad. The prisoners were stripped, made to wear bags over their heads, and sexually humiliated while the guards laughed and took photographs. How is this abuse similar to or different from what took place in the Stanford Prison Experiment?
You can either number your responses or break them up into paragraphs for clarity. This helps so that the reader knows that the writer understands what question they are answering.
Get creative! Attach a picture, video, etc., to make your intro more interesting!
Please make sure to elaborate by providing examples from the experiment and course material. Minimum word requirement 500 words.
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If you miss any of these requirements, your blog is automatically 5/10.
Get creative! Attach a picture, video, poem, etc., to make your blog more interesting! Note: it must be related to the topic.
Respond to two students (each response minimum 50 words)
Minimum 500 words (you can add the word count at the bottom of your post)
See rubric for Discussion Blog Evaluation.
Discussion Blog Rubric (1)
Discussion Blog Rubric (1)
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDiscussion
In order to earn credit on the discussion, you need to do the following:
Write a minimum of 500 words and it must address the focused questions and be on topic or you can make a vLOG (video) and post.
Comment on at least 2 student posts (each comment minimum of 50 words)
Add a creative element that is connected to the topic (i.e., link to an article, image, vid, poem, etc.). You do not need to add a creative element if you make a vLOG.
If you have not completed one of these items, you will earn a max points of 5/10.
10 pts
Proficient
All criterion is met.
5 pts
Competent
Missing at least one required criterion.
0 pts
Novice
Does not meet the minimum word requirement OR did not address focused questions OR not on topic OR incomplete
10 pts
Total Points: 10
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