Prison/Prisoners/Holocaust Flashcards
Deindividuation
When assigned their role within a group and given uniforms, the prisoners and guards lost a sense of their personal identity and behaved differently.
Dissonance Reduction
Certain guards reduced the dissonance caused by acting sadistically by legitimizing their actions, such as by claiming to have been running their own experiment.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Thinking that people end up in prisons because they are innately bad, rather than considering the conditions that may have led them to commit crimes.
Pretrial detention(reading)
People held in detention cells due to inability to pay set bail and are unlikely to return to court hearings; technically innocent in the eyes of law and simply awaiting resolution to their case.
Plea of Guilty(reading)
Giving up trial rights while pleading guilty to a case(ex. right to remain silent, right to have prosecutor prove guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, pleading guilty freely).
Foot in the door
Started with labeling, disparaging etc.; mild treatment leads to worse.
Mob Violence(reading)
Method of terrorizing a population, keeping people in place, and in some cases, force some to abandon religious or political convictions.
Obedience to Authority(reading)
In the Milgram Experiment, ordinary citizens continued to listen to authority figure in shocking victims despite their conscience wanting not to.
Responsibility(reading)
Proper allocation of moral praise and blame.
Bureaucracy(reading)
Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures.
Autonomously Generated Aggression(reading)
Aggression that comes from within an individual without provocation.
Fatalism(reading)
The belief that all things and events are inevitable and therefore out of one’s control.
Situational Determinants(reading)
What are considered the breeding grounds/conditions that can change a person.
Homicide Rates(reading)
Increase after wars due to violent ways of conflict resolution (shows how retaliation at the national level can encourage individual hostility).
