Evaluation of Zimbardo's Study

Question 1

all ppts all agreed to take part in zimbardo’s experiment therefore gave what? ALTHOUGH, all ppts did not give …. to all aspects?

Answer 1

they gave informed consent
CONSENT

Question 2

prisoners and guards under went a lot of trauma.., therefore what weren’t they protected from?

Answer 2

psychological harm

Question 3

prisoners had no right to what?

Answer 3

to withdraw

Question 4

why could there have been demand characteristics in this study?

Answer 4

ppts could have shown conformity to social roles due to demand characteristics, where they would have guessed the aim of thew study and acted in an more aggressive way to prisoners

Question 5

what is wrong with zimbardo’s sample size?

Answer 5

all male, white students,american and possibly have same intellectual abilities

Question 6

zimbardo’s sample can be seen to have gender bias and also consider ethnocentric, why is this bad?

Answer 6

this means that it cannot be generalized to all members of the population.

Question 7

people volunteered due to payment, what is the problem?

Answer 7

therefore they will get a certain type of person applying and people with more time on their hands

Question 8

zimbardo got his sample via newspaper, what is the problem?

Answer 8

only people who read the paper would see the advertisement

Question 9

why does the study lack reliability?

Answer 9

because zimbardo was involved as a participant observer

Question 10

zimbardo’s study cannot be repeated to the same extreme this means that it lacks what?

Answer 10

reliability

Question 11

name the two types of validity that zimbardo’s study LACKS.

Answer 11

lacks population validity
lacks ecological validity