L4 - Zimbardo

Question 1

Describe social roles

Answer 1

Behaviours expected from a person who occupies a certain social position or status

Question 2

Stanford Prison experiment procedure?

Answer 2

24 emotionally stable young men

Flip a coin to determine prisoner or guard

Question 3

Experiment ended up lasting for

Answer 3

6 day instead of 2 weeks

Question 4

The guards became

Answer 4

Cruel and aggressive

Question 5

The guards did what?

Answer 5

Sprayed prisoners with cabin dioxide
Stripped prisoners naked
Took mattresses away

Question 6

Prisoners became

Answer 6

Depressed
Anxious
Severely distressed

Question 7

Advantage of experiment?

Answer 7

Abu Ghraib
Prisoners were severely tortured by guards
Showed conformity to social roles

Question 8

Limitation related to sample?

Answer 8

Only young men
Females may behave differently
Beta bias
Unrepresentative

Question 9

Limitation related to Zimbardo?

Answer 9

He took role of prison guard
Became involved
Lost objectivity
Had to be told by a colleague to stop experiment

Question 10

Prisoners did what on the second day?

Answer 10

Rebelled

Baricaded themselves inside their cells