Reicher & Haslam Flashcards
Aims?
Provide comprehensive and systematic data to explain and unfolding interaction between groups/ analyse conditions of how participants fit in groups
Prompted by?
Zimbardo’s study
Tyranny?
An unequal social system involving the arbitrary or oppressive use of power by one group
Experimental case study?
A number of IV’s were introduced at specific points in the study and detailed study of the group of participants
How many participants were there?
15
How many guards?
5
How many prisoners?
10
How many phases were there?
3
First phase of screening?
Psychometric test
Second Phase of screening?
Full weekend assessment by independent psychologists
Third phase of screening?
Police checks and medical and character references
IV (day 1)?
Group boundaries permeable (Day 1) for promotion from prisoner to guard
IV (day 1 and 2)?
Legitimacy of status relations stems conflict (day 1/2) prisoners told that status was due to row test scores, told truth on day 2
IV (day 5)?
Exposure to cognitive alternatives (day 5) trade unionist introduced
DVs?
Social indentification, depression, stress, leadership and authoritarianism
Validity?
BBC filmed study which could of caused unnatural behaviours and Reicher and Haslam believed that response to inequality was shown
Reliability?
Repeat of observations with inter rater reliability could of done and different people would not behave in the same way
Generalisability?
Could be used to explain the situation of behaviours and people all behave differently
Ethics?
Ethics were water tight, deception occurred in IV2 though
What were the numbers going down by in the application process?
332, 27 and 15
