conformity to social roles

Question 1

what is a social role

Answer 1

a part a person plays in a social group usually has responsibilties which come with expectation of appropriate behaviours

Question 2

what was the aim

Answer 2

to investigate how people conformed to social roles as prisonerand guard in a role play stimulation situation

Question 3

what was before the procedure

Answer 3

they were asked to volunteer if they want to take part in the eperiment they were then psychological and emotinaly and mentally screened and randomly allocated to either prisoner or guard group

Question 4

during the study

Answer 4

the prisoners were unxpectedy arrested at home and take to makeshif prison, dehumanisation was evident as the prisoners were given id number and the guard were given dark sunglasses

Question 5

what were the finding

Answer 5

during the first day the prisoners rebelled and the guard respondd y ripping off ad confiscating blankets and prisoners removed their id numbers
dehumanisatipn was becoming more frequent names were used until prisoners became submissive and the prisoners stopped referring to each other by namees but used numbers instead
after 36 hours one prisoner showed extreme distress and was sent home three were sent after him the study was ended after 6 days

Question 6

what were the conlusion

Answer 6

people conformed to social roles even though they were injst it may be due to power of a situation

Question 7

strength

Answer 7

high control as they psychologically screend and randomly allocated ensure the results obtained were due to the use of social roles not existing psychological disorders

Question 8

lacks population validity as only males

Answer 8

only males not females collectivist culture may be hard to find it hard to harm

Question 9

unethical

Answer 9

its unethical in may ways