SI - ZIMBARDO PRISON EXP

Question 1

AIM OF ZIMBARDO?

Answer 1

to examine whether people would conform to the social roles of a prison guard or prisoner, when placed in a mock prison environment.

Question 2

what was the procedure of standford prison experiment?

Answer 2

• randomly assign people role of prisoner or guard
• prisoner arrested in home and brough to the mock prison
• strip searched, given uniform and a number
• guards were given wooden club, uniform and handcuffs
• roles were strictly polarized

Question 3

sample of prison experiment

Answer 3

• used a volunteer sample on undergrads
• gave the volunteer a test to see if they were emotionally stable
• final sample = 21

Question 4

findings of stanford prison

Answer 4

• stopped after 6 days when was meant to be 14 days
• day 2 - rebellion (ripping unfirom)
• guards were extremely enthusiastic and asserted their dominance over the prisoners, giving random head counts
• after rebl prisoners = deprssed
• 2 left on 4th day
• one went on hunger strike and was forced to leave/

Question 5

evaluate zimbardo

Answer 5

1. controlled variables - p.p who were stable to decrease individual differences - and increases internal validity so we can be more confident about drawing conclusions about influence of roles on behaviour
2. quantitative date showed that 90% of prisoner’s convos were about prison life suggesting that the situation was real to the p.p. therefore suggesting it was the situation that influenced their behaviour.
3. fromm said that Z exaggerated the power of the situation influecing behaviour and limited the role of dispositional influence. Only a minority of guards were brutal suggesting it wasnt the situation that caused them to cause their behaviour but the individual differences
4. reicher and haslam replicated in the BBC prison experiment and found that the prisoners took control and they identified as members of a social group who refused to accept the limits of the prisoner role. This means it wasnt the situation that made them conform to soical roles.
5. prisoners didnt think it was real

Question 6

WHAT WAS REICHER AND HASLAMS RESEARCH.

Answer 6

reicher and haslam replicated in the BBC prison experiment and found that the prisoners took control and they identified as members of a social group who refused to accept the limits of the prisoner role. This means it wasnt the situation that made them conform to soical roles.

Question 7

WHAT DID FROMM SAY

Answer 7

fromm said that Z exaggerated the power of the situation influecing behaviour and limited the role of dispositional influence. Only a minority of guards were brutal suggesting it wasnt the situation that caused them to cause their behaviour but the individual differences

Question 8

how much of prinsoers convo was about prison life

Answer 8

90%