Zimbardo - conformity to social roles
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- Zimbardo - conformity to social roles
- The stanford prison experiment
- Mock prison set up in stanford uni and was planned to last two weeks
- It was terminated after six days
- Volunteering males students were psychologically and physically screened and randomly assigned to play either a guard or a prisoner
- Prisoners were arested at home and were deloused on arrival, given a uniform and assigned ID numbers
- Guards referred to the prisoners by these numbers throughout the experiment
- Prisoners were allowed certain rights, including three meals a day and three supervised toilet trips a day and two visits a week.
- Guards were given uniforms, clubs, whistles and wore sunglasses to prevent eye contact
- Zimbardo took part as the superintendent
- F = guards grew increasing abusive towards prisoners - bare hand toilet cleaning
- F = PPT's forgot it was a study as they conformed to their role - prisoners asked for parole rather than withdrawing
- F = 5 relased early because of extreme reactions - started after two days
- F = guards became increasing cruel and sadistic and prisoners became passive andd accepting of their plight
- F = PPT's forgot it was a study as they conformed to their role - prisoners asked for parole rather than withdrawing
- Mock prison set up in stanford uni and was planned to last two weeks
- BBC prison study
- Ran the same study and found that ppts didnt conform automatically to their assigned roles
- The guards failed to identify their roles, which made them reluctant to to impose authority on prisoners
- prisoners formed a group and went agaisnt guards
- Shift in power = collapse of the prisoner guard system
- 15 male, divided into 5 groups of three people - 1 guard : 2 prisoners
- Ran the same study and found that ppts didnt conform automatically to their assigned roles
- Ethics
- PPts experienced emotional distress
- Carried out debrreifing sessions for several years after and concluded no lasting negative effects
- PPts experienced emotional distress
- Control over variables
- Controlled varaibale are: emotional individuals picked - ruled out individual personality differences as an explanations of the findings
- Increases the internal validity
- Controlled varaibale are: emotional individuals picked - ruled out individual personality differences as an explanations of the findings
- Abu Ghraib soliders
- Guards of iraqi soliders became abusive - situational factors, lack of training, boredom
- The stanford prison experiment
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