The guards were given the right to do what they wanted but were informed not to physically abuse the prisoners by Zimbardo. One of the participants had started having outbursts and showed deep depression; therefore he had to leave the experiment in 36 hours. The guards found ways to punish the prisoners without physically hurting them by making them clean out toilets
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1. The general idea of the article is about a mock prison experiment conducted by Doctor Zimbardo. The research was to identify the psychological causes of aggression and violence‚ and to observe the variables that promoted such behaviour in prison. He did this by using two groups of people that were randomly assigned as either a prisoner or a prison guard. The hypothesis that is focused upon to provide an explanation to the conditions in prisons is the dispositional hypothesis. The dispositional
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expected to conform‚ non conformity can often lead to role conflict and group pressure to follow the rules‚ and ultimalty if the overall effect is negative or positive. The Zimbardo experiment ‚Philip Zimbardo (1971) Starting with psychology‚ Milton Keynes‚ Open University‚An example of a negative influence on people. Zimbardo and his colleagues set up an experiment in a prison environment where a group of males were randomly selected to the role of “guard” or “prisoner”. The experiment was scheduled
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Sociological Imagination Applied to Real Life Teresa Halderman Dr. Philip Zimbardo conducted the SPE (Stanford Prison Experiment ) 1971. Funded by the US Navy and the Marine Corps a team of researchers and the then psychology professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo investigated the causes of conflict between prisoners and military guards. Though the experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days it went beyond Dr. Zimbardo’s expectations. All of the twenty-four male students selected to be assinged
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large anonymous crowd. Individuals feels less responsible and identifiable‚ so normal constraint to prevent aggressive behaviour may be lost. The share of responsibility for action reduces individual guilt. This theory is validated by the work of Zimbardo where he imitated Millgram’s electic shock experiment. A group of femaile ppts were require to deliver electric shocks to another person(learner). Half of the ppts wore bulky lab coat and a hoods that covers their face(deindividuated)‚ another half
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Obedience is a form of social influence that occurs when a person yields to explicit instructions on orders from an authority figure. Obedience is compliance with commands given by an authority figure. In the 1960s‚ the social psychologist Stanley Milgram did a famous research study called the obedience study. It showed that people have a strong tendency to comply with authority figures. Milgram’s Obedience Study Milgram told his forty male volunteer research subjects that they were participating
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Discuss two social psychological theories of aggression (24 marks) One social psychological theory of aggression is social learning theory. SLT argues that like all behaviour‚ aggression is learned through both direct and indirect reinforcement. Behaviour which is reinforced‚ be that positively or negatively – positive reinforcement occurs when the behaviour causes desired outcomes‚ negative reinforcement occurs when the behaviour causes undesirable outcomes - is more likely to be learned and repeated
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biological factors (nature vs. nurture debate) - Unlike the SLT‚ biological theories have empirical evidence such as brain scans and hormone recordings. The biological explanation supports the debate that psychology is a science. Deindividuation- Zimbardo Says that aggression occurs when a person loses their own sense of identity‚ often when
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children grow from young beautiful children to infancy and then to adulthood they are gradually affected by their surrounding environment around them. They are also affected by the genetics their mothers and fathers pass down to them (Gerrig and Zimbardo). As the children grow they will change and develop in many different ways. Our children will go through many stages of social and moral development from the time of early childhood through adolescence. Infancy is the first time period in a child’s
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The Zimbardo prison experiment was a study of human responses to captivity‚ dehumanization and its effects on the behavior on authority figures and inmates in prison situations. Conducted in 1971 the experiment was led by Phlilip Zimbardo. Volunteer College students played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a simulated prison setting in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Philip Zimbardo and his team aimed to demonstrate the situational rather than the dispositional causes
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