Evaluation: Zimbardo (1973): SPE
- Created by: theninjaemu
- Created on: 17-11-16 09:32
View mindmap
- Evaluation: Zimbardo (1973): SPE
- Participant control
- Ppts volunteered to take part
- Emotionally stable ppts were chosen
- Ppts were randomly assigned to roles
- Good representation of the target population
- Easier to generalise results
- Experiment has a higher validity
- Reicher and Haslam (2006)
- TV replication of SPE
- Prisoners took over and dehumanised the guards
- Social Identity Theory
- Guards didn't develop a shared social identity
- The prisoners did
- Zimbardo's findings on conformity to social roles may not be valid
- Ethical issues
- Zimbardo's dual role in the study
- Researcher
- Prison super intendent
- Overlooked guards abusive behaviour
- Zimbardo conformed to his role
- Ppts weren't protected from harm
- Breaks moral code of the experement
- Experimenter has a responsibility to protect ppts from harm
- Zimbardo's dual role in the study
- Low population validity
- Androcentric and ethnocentric
- All participants were white, male college students
- Can't generalise to the rest of the population
- Findings may not apply to:
- Women
- Older people
- Different cultures or ethnicities
- Participant control
Comments
No comments have yet been made