Summary
Zimbardo did an experiment to check if human beings could change (behavior wise) according to their surroundings. The “Prisoners” and the “Prison guards conformed well to their role plays. They acted out as if in real life. The null hypothesis stated that social life did not affect the behavior of a person. According to our findings the social place of the prison and the prison wardens change their behavior, thus we rejected the null hypothesis. In our conclusion the research supported the situational theory.
Literature Review
In 1973, Philip Zimbardo decided to find out a psychological study on how a human would respond while in captivity. He did this as he was a junior lecturer at Stanford's Psychology Department. He took students
Zimbardo did an experiment to check if human beings could change (behavior wise) according to their surroundings. The “Prisoners” and the “Prison guards conformed well to their role plays. They acted out as if in real life. The null hypothesis stated that social life did not affect the behavior of a person. According to our findings the social place of the prison and the prison wardens change their behavior, thus we rejected the null hypothesis. In our conclusion the research supported the situational theory.
Literature Review
In 1973, Philip Zimbardo decided to find out a psychological study on how a human would respond while in captivity. He did this as he was a junior lecturer at Stanford's Psychology Department. He took students