Psychology Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment

Aim:
Procedure: Findings:

Conclusion:
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Abu Ghraib Iraq Deindividuation

Summarise what happened here: Definition:

The loss of self-awareness in groups as identity is
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Explain why this occurred using Zimbardo’s findings from his prison study to help:

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Strengths Weaknesses
Banuazizi and Mohavedi (1975) argued that participants were merely play-acting and not actually
conforming to social roles
High Control over key These performances were based on stereotypes of how they thought they were supposed to behave
variables….internal However Zimbardo argues that the study was very true to life and prisoners even spoke just about
validity…..explain this point prison

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…… Fromm (1973) accused Zimbardo of exaggerating the power of the situation to influence behaviour
Fromm focused more on dispositional (personality) factors
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…… Reicher and Haslam (2006) replicated the study and this was broadcast on the BBC (look it up!) and they
found very different findings to Zimbardo
…………………………………………… Prisoners eventually took control
…… They used the social identity theory to explain this and said that guards failed to develop a shared
social identity as a cohesive group but the prisoners did so they had more control
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