Haney And Zimbardo

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what previous research had zimbardo done into prison roles and situations?
Stanford Prison Experiment
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describe the sample used in Zimbardo's stanford prison experiment
24 psychology students
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how were participants divided into two groups?
roles - prisoners and guards
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what effect did the roles have on participants?
guards became sadistic and revengeful on prisoners as if they had actually committed a crime
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what caused the experiment to stop?
Zimbardos girlfriend forced him to stop the experiment due to psychological harm of participants and the fact Zimbardo lost all objectivity
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what was prison like in the 1970's?
anti-imprisonment, placing more value in rehabilitation and alternatives, and wanting a more humane system
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in the 1980's did the prison system become better or worse?
significantly worse
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what lead to the downfall of the prison system in the 1980's?
political pressure was mounted to put more and more people behind bars, rehabilitation was entirely discredited and no parole was allowed so there was incentive for good behaviour
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what did putting more people in prison lead to ?
overcrowding
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who was there a racial bias towards in the us prisons? what percentage did they make up?
African Americans , 48% of prison population
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who was over represented in prisons?
drug offenders
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what suggestions did zimbardo make in order to improve the prison system?
decompression systems, each prisoner individually asessed on how they are able to adjust to confinement in order to help most vulnerable this would aid to eventually reverse effects of extreme imprisonment and decrease recidivism
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