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2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology Social Influence: Conformity To Social Roles Part 2
This deck covers key concepts, findings, and evaluations from Zimbardo's research on conformity to social roles, focusing on the Stanford prison experiment.
How long did the role play actually last for?
Six days
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Term
Definition
How long did the role play actually last for?
Six days
What conclusions were made from Zimbardo's research?
1. That guards, prisoners and researchers conformed to their role within the prison. 2. That social roles have extraordinary power over individuals, m...
AO3: Does Zimbardo's research have high or low control over extraneous variables?
High
AO3: Why does Zimbardo's research have high control over extraneous variables?
Because the way in which the sample was selected was controlled for as researcher assessed the emotional stability of the participants prior to the ex...
AO3: Why is Zimbardo's research having high control over extraneous variables a strength?
Controlling for extraneous variables means that Zimbardo can more accurately measure what he intended to measure, which was the power of social roles ...
AO3: Zimbardo's sample was all male. What bias does this mean the sample has?
Gender bias
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
How long did the role play actually last for? | Six days |
What conclusions were made from Zimbardo's research? | 1. That guards, prisoners and researchers conformed to their role within the prison. 2. That social roles have extraordinary power over individuals, making even the most well adjusted capable of extreme brutality towards others. |
AO3: Does Zimbardo's research have high or low control over extraneous variables? | High |
AO3: Why does Zimbardo's research have high control over extraneous variables? | Because the way in which the sample was selected was controlled for as researcher assessed the emotional stability of the participants prior to the experiment. |
AO3: Why is Zimbardo's research having high control over extraneous variables a strength? | Controlling for extraneous variables means that Zimbardo can more accurately measure what he intended to measure, which was the power of social roles on conformity, increasing the internal validity. |
AO3: Zimbardo's sample was all male. What bias does this mean the sample has? | Gender bias |
AO3: Why is Zimbardo's research being male only a problem? | It makes it difficult to generalise the findings of the research that people conform to social roles to women. This is because the role of a guard is a violent one, and females stereotypically are more caring and concerned for others. |
AO3: Discussion - Why might Zimbardo argue that a male only sample was valid for his research? | Due to the background content of Zimbardo's research and his interest in understand police brutality in the USA, at that time the majority of guards within the prison would have only been male. |
AO3: Does Zimbardo's study having high control over extraneous variables increase the internal or external validity? | Internal |
AO3: Does Zimbardo's study having gender bias decrease the internal or external validity? | External validity |
AO3: What word can we use to describe an all male sample? | Androcentric |
AO3: Did Zimbardo's research have any ethical issues? | Yes |
How did Zimbardo's research break ethical guidelines - which did he break and how? | Lack of informed consent - prisoners' did not consent to being arrested from their homes; No protection from harm - several prisoners left early due to the psychological disturbance caused; Lack of right to withdraw - had to go through parole process to leave prison |
AO3: Why was there a lack of informed consent in Zimbardo's study? | Prisoner's did not consent to being arrested |
AO3: Why were the prisoner's not protected from harm? | Some showed signs of psychological disturbance |
AO3: What do ethical issues reduce for Zimbardo's study? | Credibility |
AO3: What did Zimbardo do in order to overcome the ethical guidelines he had broken? | He carried out extensive debriefing sessions with the participants for several years afterwards and concluded that there were no long-lasting negative effects. |
AO3: Is Zimbardo's research prone to demand characteristics? | Yes |
AO3: Why is Zimbardo's research prone to demand characteristics? | Zimbardo was Superintendent and participants were paid |
AO3: Does Zimbardo's study being prone to demand characteristics affect the internal or external validity? | Internal validity |
'The parts that people play as members of various social groups' is a definition of what key term? | Social roles |
Who took on the role of Superintendent in Zimbardo's study? | Zimbardo |
What happened to prisoners who showed serious stress-related reactions? | They were released early |
In Zimbardo's study, who conformed to their social roles? | Guards, prisoners and researcher |