Conforming To Social Roles

Question 1

Zimbardo Prison

Answer 1

Investigated whether good people would conform to evil roles. He split participants into two groups; prisoners and guards. The prisoners were kept in fake cells and the only order for the guards was to ‘maintain order’.
The guards got caught up in their roles and began to punish the prisoners. The prisoners originally rebelled but then cracked under the pressure.

Question 2

Good Apples or Bad Barrels

Answer 2

Zimbardo said that good people do bad things in a bad situation. Related to cider: if you put a good apple in a bad apple then you will make bad cider.

Question 3

Practical Implications of Zimbardo

Answer 3

The results can be used to explain the holocaust and Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

Question 4

Evaluation of Zimbardo

Answer 4

\:) Lab- control of extraneous variables
\:) combination of qualitative and quantitative data collected
\:) Practical Implications
\:( Ethical issues
\:( Unrepresentative sample 
\:( Low ecological validity
\:( Observer bias

Question 5

Orlando

Answer 5

The Orlando study had psychiatric nurses stay in a mock ward for a week. The fake patients were treated poorly by the real nurses, even tho they knew they weren’t real patients.