level: effect of imprisionment
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level questions: effect of imprisionment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| background | SUICIDE IN PRISONS according to geneveieve |
| aim | investigate how readily people would conform to the role of guards and prisoners in a role playing exercise that simulatd prison life |
| method | lab experiment w independent measures design |
| sample | 24 male college students from the 75 volunteers paid 15 dollars per day. |
| procedure ZIMBARDO | randomly assigned to prisoner and guard 2 reserves and 1 dropped out leaving 10 prisoners and 11 guards. sets of 3 over 8 hour shifts- 3 ppl per room. ID numbers instead of names. guards all in identical khaki uniforms |
| results | prisoners adopt prisoner role prisoner 8612 had to be released after 36 hours because of crying, anger, screaming! terminated by his gf ;;( on the 6th day |
| learned helplessness | yes |