Zimbardo Flashcards
What was Zimbardo president of in 2003?
APA
What did Zimbardo want to conduct?
a more dynamic study than those of Asch or Milgram
What is the bad apple hypothesis?
That personality determined who acted badly
What were prisons like?
Riots in San Quentin and Attica
How were participants recruited?
newspaper ad for $15 a day
Why did Zimbardo just choose middle-classs
Bc lower class may have stereotypical negative aspects
What happened on the first day?
Humiliation, law enforcement, assering authority
What did participants have a sense of?
deindividuation
What happend on the second day?
Rebellion and breaking soliarity
What happened on the third day?
First release, visitors and mass escape plot
What happened on the fourth day?
Visit from a priest and release of another prisoners
What happened on the fifth day?
Parole board and hunger strike
What happened on the sixth day?
Parents send lawyer and experiment is stopped
What is the bad barrel hypothesis?
situational determinsm that roles make people do bad
Did Zimbardo want to release participants?
no
How did distress ger caused?
Zimbardo shifted blame from the situaiton to participants
What did Blum find?
one warden said that guards are strongly advised to act as tough guards
What did Carnahan and McFarland find?
People who replied to a similar newspaper ad were:
- more socially dominant
- higher in aggression
- more narcissistic
What is the self-categorisation theory (Turner)?
People only accept roles after they are internalised and have it as a part of their social identity
What did Haslam and Reicher find?
- No evidence that guards conformed blindly to role (Haslam & Reicher, 2003)
- Resistance: Factors designed to increase social identity increased confidence, solidarity and resistance
- Tyranny: Considered response to group failure and powerlessness
What is dynamic interactionism?
bad apples create bad barrels
How has Zimbardo impacted the world?
• Has provided a vivid empirical basis for widespread belief in the pathology of groups and power
