Criminal- Zimbardo

Question 1

factors into crime and reoffending

Answer 1

• prison conditions
• type of crime in prison and therefore their prison experience
• there criminal record means job finding is harder, their family may split up so people may turn to crime to get money to eat
• psychopaths take pleasure in hurting people

Question 2

what types of punishment are there

Answer 2

reform= preventative to decrease recidivism
punitive= revenge and justice, death sentence or prison

Question 3

why doesnt prison work at the moment

Answer 3

operant conditioning- learn through rewards or lack of

punishment is an unpleasant stimulus but prison is not, they get TV and hot showers

if it did work then the prison population wouldn’t keep rising

Question 4

what punishment/ reform works best to decrease recidivism

Answer 4

community service

has positive reinforcement

47% re-offend before in prison, and now much less re-offend. about half less

however 1 in 4 dont actually finish the service because they refuse

Question 5

anger management

Answer 5

CALM

• teach skills, reduce frequency and intensity of anger
• antisocial thoughts come from undesirable feelings
• you act bad doesn’t mean you are bad
  1. understanding anger
  2. effect of arousal on anger
  3. thought patterns of anger
  4. effective communication with others
  5. labelling emotions to identify anger
  6. how to identify and deal with relapse with a bit of role play to apply what has been learnt

Question 6

aim

Answer 6

effects of being a guard or prisoner.

situational or dispositional behaviour

Question 7

sample

Answer 7

24 male volunteers
only mentally mature selected
from 75 people
given $15 a day

Question 8

design

Answer 8

lab in a mock prison
IV- guard or prisoner
DV- behaviour

Question 9

what was the prison like

Answer 9

Stanford in basement
3 cells with 3 prisoners in each
luxurious guard rooms
small cupboard for solitary
prisoners wore slacks and chain
guards wore sunglasses with khaki and a whistle

Question 10

method

Answer 10

ptts told they had to maintain roles 24/7
guaranteed basic rights apart from maybe privacy
prisoners arrested at home
guards briefed by zimbardo and told to keep order for effective function, no physical violence
prisoners deloused and head shaved

Question 11

results

Answer 11

supposed to last 2 weeks but actually 6 days
deindividualisation
pathological prisoner syndrome (rebellion then submissive)
pathology of power was the enjoyment the “guards” received from their power and how quickly they began to mistreat the “prisoners” after they received this power.

Question 12

how did prisoners show identity loss?

Answer 12

given number and when they met a priest they only said their numbers

Question 13

how did prisoners show they were under arbitary control

Answer 13

guards had complete control over p with contradicting rules

Question 14

dependency

Answer 14

prisoners needed guards for basic needs like asking for a wee

Question 15

conclusions

Answer 15

situational not dispositional

we need guard training programmes