Conformity to social roles Flashcards
1
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Zimbardo
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Stanford Prison experiment. Conformity to social roles due to situation.
2
Q
Orlando
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hospital staff played role of patients. Many had symptoms of psychological disturbance. Supporting evidence for Zimbardo (situation changed behaviour)
3
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Reicher + Haslam
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replicated prison study and found prisoners took over guards. Counter evidence for Zimbardo.
4
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Fromm
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suggests Zimbardo was exaggerating. Only 1/3 acted brutally. Suggests dispositional not situation. Other explanations.
5
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Banuazzi and Mohavedi
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suggest participants were copying film characters (stereotypes). Zimbardo study not measuring what it is meant to (methods)
