Zimbardo's Research
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- Created on: 16-06-18 12:48
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- Zimbardo research
- Stanford prison experiment (SPE)
- procedure
- volunteer sample of students
- psychological testing
- ppts randomly assigned
- social roles strictly divided
- police told they had complete power
- volunteer sample of students
- findings
- 'the power of the situation'
- all conformed to social roles
- police became more brutal
- Prisoners became subdued
- procedure
- Strengths
- Highly controlled
- lab experiment
- randomly assigned
- avoids effect of individual differences
- high internal validity
- Highly controlled
- Limitations
- Dispositional factors
- Fromm
- Zimbardo exaggerated the role of the situation
- personality is a bigger factor
- 1/3 guards were brutal
- another 1/3 were fair
- could still exercise what is wrong or right
- Fromm
- ethical issues
- 1 student wanted to leave
- Zimbardo acted like a superintendent
- limited his ability to protect them from harm
- Zimbardo acted like a superintendent
- lack of fully informed consent
- 1 student wanted to leave
- Dispositional factors
- Stanford prison experiment (SPE)
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