Zimbardo Flashcards

1
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What was Zimbardo president of in 2003?

A

APA

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2
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What did Zimbardo want to conduct?

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a more dynamic study than those of Asch or Milgram

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3
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What is the bad apple hypothesis?

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That personality determined who acted badly

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4
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What were prisons like?

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Riots in San Quentin and Attica

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5
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How were participants recruited?

A

newspaper ad for $15 a day

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6
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Why did Zimbardo just choose middle-classs

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Bc lower class may have stereotypical negative aspects

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7
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What happened on the first day?

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Humiliation, law enforcement, assering authority

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8
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What did participants have a sense of?

A

deindividuation

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9
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What happend on the second day?

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Rebellion and breaking soliarity

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10
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What happened on the third day?

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First release, visitors and mass escape plot

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11
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What happened on the fourth day?

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Visit from a priest and release of another prisoners

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12
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What happened on the fifth day?

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Parole board and hunger strike

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13
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What happened on the sixth day?

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Parents send lawyer and experiment is stopped

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14
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What is the bad barrel hypothesis?

A

situational determinsm that roles make people do bad

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15
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Did Zimbardo want to release participants?

A

no

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16
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How did distress ger caused?

A

Zimbardo shifted blame from the situaiton to participants

17
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What did Blum find?

A

one warden said that guards are strongly advised to act as tough guards

18
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What did Carnahan and McFarland find?

A

People who replied to a similar newspaper ad were:

  • more socially dominant
  • higher in aggression
  • more narcissistic
19
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What is the self-categorisation theory (Turner)?

A

People only accept roles after they are internalised and have it as a part of their social identity

20
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What did Haslam and Reicher find?

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  • No evidence that guards conformed blindly to role (Haslam & Reicher, 2003)
  • Resistance: Factors designed to increase social identity increased confidence, solidarity and resistance
  • Tyranny: Considered response to group failure and powerlessness
21
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What is dynamic interactionism?

A

bad apples create bad barrels

22
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How has Zimbardo impacted the world?

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• Has provided a vivid empirical basis for widespread belief in the pathology of groups and power