Prisons/Prisoners: SPE & The Holocaust

Question 1

Deindividuation

Answer 1

When assigned their role within a group and given uniforms, the prisoners and guards lost a sense of their personal identity and behaved differently.

Question 2

Dissonance Reduction

Answer 2

Certain guards reduced the dissonance caused by acting sadistically by legitimizing their actions, such as by claiming to have been running their own experiment.

Question 3

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Foot-in-the-door (The Holocaust)

Answer 4

Started with labeling, disparaging, etc; mild treatment leads to worse.