Conformity to social roles

Question 1

who is the researcher for conformity to social roles?

Answer 1

Zimbardo!!

Question 2

what are social roles?

Answer 2

parts people play as members of various social groups. accompanied by expectations we and others have of what is appropriate behaviour in each roles. conforming to social roles isn’t long lasting= identification

Question 3

what is situational conformity?

Answer 3

explains how behaviour influenced by environment. situation currently in. external

Question 4

what is dispositional conformity?

Answer 4

behaviour result of personal characteristics/traits. internal

Question 5

what did zimbardo want to research?

Answer 5

why prison guards behaved so brutally - were they conforming to social roles or programmed like that ?
are the dehumanising effects of prison system due to prisoners anti social attitudes

Question 6

what did it mean if there was no brutality

Answer 6

dispositional hypothesis supported

Question 7

what did it mean if brutality was seen

Answer 7

situational hypothesis supported

Question 8

what was the 2 aims of zimbardo

Answer 8

To investigate the extent to which people would conform to the social roles of guard and prisoner in a role playing stimulation of prison life.

To test the dispositional vs situational hyp.

Question 9

method of zimbardo

Answer 9

21 Male participants
10 guards 11 prisoners
Volunteer sample (75 responded to a newspaper ad and received $15 a day – 21 students rated most physically and mentally stable, mature and free from anti-social and criminal tendencies chosen).
Basement of Psych Dept. at Stanford Uni was converted to a mock prison. (lab)
Prisoners: Arrested by real police & processed like real prisoners (fingerprinted, stripped) and dehumanising occurred by giving the prisoners smocks and only referring to them as a number and making them wear caps to represent a shaved head.
Guards were given khaki uniforms, sunglasses (to prevent eye contact),

Question 10

results of zimbardo

Answer 10

• deindividualisation happening as werent seeing them as human
• after 36 hours uncontrollable rage, crying, distress
• had disorted thinking- thought actual prisoners

Question 11

conclusion of zimbardo

Answer 11

• individuals conform to their social roles
• situational conformity
• influences of social roles= media

Question 12

evaluation of zimbardo

Answer 12

L: unethical
L: lack realism
L: fails to acknowledge disp factors
L: androcentric
L: research bias
S: supports situational hypothesis
S: high level of control