Zimbardo

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

Why do prison guards behave so brutally is it cause they’d conform to a social role or do they have a sadistic personality

Question 2

AO1

Answer 2

Add in a newspaper (15$ a day), volunteers applied then had to do personality tests and background checks, left with 21 male student volunterrs. Students randomly assigned prisoner or guard. Prisoners were arrested outside there house and taken to Stanford university basement where the was a mock prison. Prisoners were given a smock to wear and a cap and a number. Guards wore uniform, and reflective sunglasses.

Question 3

Findings

Answer 3

On the second morning prisoners decided to rebel they barricaded themselves in there cells and swore at the gaurds
Guards did headcounts in the middle of the night and made prisoners do pushups
Prisoner 416 was put in solitary confinement and after 36 hours left thr experiment as he was in serious distress
Christina Maslach (GF) told Zimbardo to shut experiment down on day six, he did (supposed to last 2 weeks)

Question 4

Pros

Answer 4

Application was good very realistic prison setting and set up of experiment
Did debrief at the end

Question 5

Cons

Answer 5

Guard may have suffered demand characteristic (lowers Validity)
Lack of generalisability: white men, American, students
Extraneous variables lack reliability (one guard admitted to basing his charter of cool hand Luke)
Ethics terrible: lack of informed consent, right to withdraw, psychological and physical harm, Zimbardo took part in

Question 6

Based on

Answer 6

Abu Ghraib prison in with Iraqi prisoners