The behavior of the individuals in the Stanford prison...

The behavior of the individuals in the Stanford prison experiment
is best explained by which of the following terms?
Bystander effect
Deindividuation
Internalization
Social loafing
a. I only
b. III only
c. Il and III only
d. Il and IV only

Key Concepts

Deindividuation

Deindividuation is a social psychological state in which individuals lose self-awareness and diminish their sense of personal responsibility due to factors such as anonymity and group immersion. This reduced accountability can lead people to engage in behavior that they might normally consider inappropriate, making it a key concept for understanding how ordinary individuals can act in extreme ways in certain group settings, such as those observed in the Stanford prison experiment.

Transcript

00:01 This question asks us about the stanford prison experiment and what effect will be seen in those individuals that participated.

00:09 Well, we find that there are actually going to be two effects, two behaviors that are going to be exhibited by these participants.

00:19 So the first of which will be de -individualization.

00:23 And with de -individualization, that as it sounds is going to be a loss of self -identialization.

00:30 So, de -individualization is a loss of self -identity.

00:46 So an example of this would be in a crowd where there is, let's say, a protest going on.

00:54 During a protest, there is de -individualization where each member of the crowd makes up the body of the crowd.

01:00 Each member loses their own identity and takes up the identity of the whole group.

01:05 So in de -individualization, we are going to see this loss of self -identity within the group setting.

01:14 And when an individual loses that self -identity, then we can see that they will behave in a manner that usually, if they still have the self -identity present, will not be exhibited.

01:28 So, for example, they might become more aggressive, much more violent.

01:31 And that's why we see that generally peaceful people during large protests may turn violent or may act in ways that they themselves would not act on their own.

01:43 So that's deindividualization.

01:44 And this was actually seen in the stanford president experiment.

01:46 And then the second part to this is going to be this internalization...

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