Conformity To Social Roles

Question 1

Describe the Stanford prison experiment sample

Answer 1

24 male undergraduates

Question 2

Aim of the study

Answer 2

to investigate whether people conformed and obeyed l due to situational and dispositional factors

Question 3

How were prisoner and guard status allocated

Answer 3

randomly

Question 4

Weaknesses of this study

Answer 4

Researcher bias

Reicher and Haslam (2006) - opposite prisoners took over
(cultural differences)

Protection from harm

difficulty to generalise

Question 5

Strengths of the Stanford prison experiment

Answer 5

Random allocation of roles to participants - rids researcher bias

High control = high internal validity

Study was made as realistic as pssible