sherif et al evaluation
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- Created on: 06-01-13 15:39
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- Robbers Cave experiment: Sherif et al Evaluation
- Ecological Validity
- High- in the boys real life setting of a summer camp
- Generalisability
- Low, limited sample of white middle aged boys - cant generalise to women or adults
- Experimental Validity
- high, realistic set up of summer camp. demand chs unlikely as boys didnt know in exp
- Ethics
- protection of pps broken as boys calling names and violence. likely they were caused psychological harm
- Contradictory study
- Tyreman + spencer
- Observed an annual scout camp. similar conditions but didnt lead to prejudice
- Tyreman + spencer
- Ecological Validity
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