Social Psychology - Identification

We spent most of today's lesson watching the documentary about the Stanford Prison Experiment which you can watch here, here and here.

Sub-headings for your notes on this study (use your textbook):

• Aims
• Participants - including their allocation to the two conditions (guards and prisoners)
• Instructions given to the guards
• Behaviours observed
• Ethical issues (and how the experiment was stopped)
• The demand characteristics problem
• Conclusions