Reicher & Haslam

Question 1

What is the aim to reicher and haslams study?

Answer 1

To study the way people respond to a system of inequality. Do they accept it or resist it?

Question 2

What were the 4 hypothesis to reicher and haslams study?

Answer 2

1. To develop ethical guidelines for examining psychological issues in large studies.
2. Examine the role of social, organisational and clinical factors in group behaviour.
3. Analyse conditions which lead to members identifying with their group and whether they accept or challenge inequalities.
4. Provide data on the interaction of people in groups where there are inequalities.

Question 3

What are the three IVs in reicher and haslams study?

Answer 3

1. Permeability
2. Legitimacy
3. Cognitive alternatives

Question 4

What are the three DVs to reicher and haslams study?

Answer 4

1. Social variables
2. Organisational variables
3. Clinical variables

Question 5

Participants in reicher and haslam?

Answer 5

332 men responded to the advert, only 15 were chosen from 3 screening phases, divided into 5 groups of 3 and all matched on personslities. 1 randomly selected as the guard and the other two as prisoners.

Question 6

Reicher and haslams sampling method?

Answer 6

Self- selected

Question 7

Reicher and haslams research method?

Answer 7

Experimental case study

Question 8

Reicher and haslams procedure?

Answer 8

Guards arrive in a car together, given uniforms and told to keep everything in order. Prisoners arrive together and their heads are shaved.

Question 9

What happened on day 1 of reicher and haslams study?

Answer 9

Guards and prisoners arrive separately, prisoners food wasnt very nice and they had to serve nice food to guards. They soon realise the arent equal, reicher and haslam announce there will be an opportunity for a prisoner to be promoted to a guard.

Question 10

What happened in day 2 of reicher and haslams study?

Answer 10

Guards become uncomfortable with the level of inequality and they offer their food to prisoners.

Question 11

Day 3 of reicher and haslams study?

Answer 11

Guards announce who got the promotion and it is made clear there will be no more, prisoner solidarity.

Question 12

Day 4 of reicher and haslam?

Answer 12

Prisoners plot against guards, ‘us and them’, guards still act as equals which unfuriates prisoners. Prisoners united, guards disunited.

Question 13

Day 5 of reicher and haslam?

Answer 13

New prisoner introduced, a trade unionist who eliminates all conflict by suggesting prisoners and guards work together to revolt against experimenters. Collective plan is a forum where they all share their problems.

Question 14

Day 6 of reicher and haslam?

Answer 14

Trade unionist withdrawn. Idea of the forum rapidly falls apart and the conflict resumes. The prisoners escape and the guards lose control, the system collapses.

Question 15

Day 7 of reicher and haslam?

Answer 15

Guard regime fails, the still try to act normally but it doesnt work. They vote on a new structure where everyone is treated equally, a commune is set up, the new democratic system works.

Question 16

Day 8 of reicher and haslam?

Answer 16

People stop abiding by new rules so commune ends and tyranny is being created so experiment had to end.

Question 17

Reicher and haslam results?

Answer 17

Guards didnt stick together in their roles (unexpected).
Prisoners acted individually to get a promotion (expected).
Social identification was measured daily, prisoners corresponded less and less each day.

Question 18

Reicher and haslam conclusion?

Answer 18

Tyranny is a result of group processes and not due to individual devience.

Question 19

What approach is reicher and haslam in?

Answer 19

Social