ZIMBARDO - A03

Question 1

What is one strength point to Zimbardo’s study?

Answer 1

P: control over key variables.
E: their behaviour was due to role itself and not their personalities-they dud not choose what role they wanted.
E: shows internal validity, shows affects of social roles on conformity.

Question 2

What is one limitation point to Zimbardo’s study?

Answer 2

P: He exaggerated the power of roles.
E:only a third of the guards behaved brutally , the rest supported prisoners.
E: he overstates the brutality of the prisoners, reducing validity of study.

Question 3

What is one strength point to Zimbardo’s study?

Answer 3

(CA)
P: however, they did act as if the prison was real.
E: prisoner 416 thought it was a prison run by psychologists.
E:replicated the roles of guard and prisoner juts as in a real prison, increasing internal validity.

Question 4

What is one limitation point to Zimbardo’s study?

Answer 4

P: lacked the realism of a true prison .
E: Mohavedi- participants were ‘play acting’. They were only using their stereotypes on what their roles are like.
E: tells us little about how they would truly act.