wk9 Ingroup norms and extreme behaviour

Question 1

behaviour and group norm

Answer 1

Align behaviour with group norms if stye highly identify with the group

Question 2

Criticism of Zimbardo prison

Answer 2

He said that guards had no training but actually gave them instructions
More leadership and group norms enforced by powerful leader

Question 3

Significane of prison studies

Answer 3

Highlight the potential power of the environment/situation
Psychological connection to the group matters (identification)
Lack of effective leader lead to tyranny

Question 4

Characteristics of cult joiners

Answer 4

43% feeling lonely and rejected
41% drifting and meanginless life
34% personal crisis
30% met someone who actively converted them
Majority ‘average/good’ parent relationship

Question 5

leaving cults

Answer 5

23% walked
44% received exit counselling
25% deprogramed (loosing pop)

Question 6

Effects of cut on former members

Answer 6

Psychopathology (27-95%), anxiety and guilt, difficulty making decisions, depression, loss of identity

Question 7

What is the attraction to cults

Answer 7

Resolution of unresolved psychic needs
Sense of meaning
Uncertainty reduction
Companionship and belonging

Question 8

Cult recruitment techniques

Answer 8

Promise answers
Love bombing
Invoking a sense of similarity
Encouragement to participate in group activities

Question 9

How to brainwash

Answer 9

Placed in altered state of consciousness to become highly suggestible. Submitted to conditioning, and new personality persists.

Question 10

Alternative explanation for Korea

Answer 10

Using gentle strategies to induce mild commitments that are later elaborated by captors so that ‘betrayel’ becomes more sinister.
Power of commitment in gaining compliance
The need for people to feel that they chose to change attitudes

Question 11

Lifton brainwashing techniques

Answer 11

Milieu control (limit outside contact to restrict reality testing)
Mystic manipulation
Demand for purity (use guilt and shame to control captor)
Confession (use confession to establish closeness to peers, surrender to environment)
Sacred science (sacredness is built around the group dogma)