Movie Paper

For this paper, you will watch “The Stanford Prison Experiment’ , and analyze it from the social psychological perspective. After watching it, you will need to identify THREE specific concepts from class that are illustrated in this film. Specific concepts means something more than just “attitudes” or “prejudice”. For example, if you wanted to discuss a concept associated with attitudes, you could discuss the disconnect between attitudes and behaviors, the experience of cognitive dissonance, or sources of attitudes.) In your paper, you need to clearly explain your three concepts and how they can be seen in the movie. You will need to provide a specific description of how the concept is conveyed. For example, if it is part of the plot explain how. If it is part of the character development, behavior in a scene, evident in dialogue or something else explain how the concept is illustrated. Lastly, you will need to assess whether the film portrays social psychology accurately.

Your paper should be roughly 2-4 typed pages, assuming regular 12 font-size, margin and double spacing. Please focus more on content than length, and make sure that you include and explain all the relevant material.

While the structure of your paper may vary slightly, you should plan on having the following paragraphs/sections:

• Name of the movie and brief overview of film (the key word here is brief – focus on a summary that includes only important aspects)

• Identification and explanation of concept 1 and evidence for concept 1

• Identification and explanation of concept 2 and evidence for concept 2

• Identification and explanation of concept 3 and evidence for concept 3

• Assessment of accuracy in film depiction of concepts

• Works Cited/Bibliography (You must include this section): Regardless of whether you know something is true, if something is not common knowledge you must cite a supporting resource. For this class, a good rule of thumb is this – if 9 out of 10 people you find at the mall probably do not know the fact you are writing about then you must cite a supporting resource. Whenever you use ANY resource, you MUST cite it in the body of your paper and include it in your bibliography. Use APA style for references and bibliography.

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