PSYCH 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stanford Prison Experiment, Institutional Review Board, Social Cognition
21 Jan 2016
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The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations or other people. How do you ensure that the results that your participants gave would be the same as another group of participants. Best way to generalize across people: random selection from population. Replicate the study with different groups of people. The extent to which the psychological processes triggered in your experiment are similar to psychological processes that occur in everyday life. Researcher might observe things from the real world > the test hypotheses using experiments > that test results in different populations and settings > which leads to back to the beginning. Milgram (1963) - zaps person, person begs to be let out, experimenter keeps going, participant doesn"t make any noise at all anymore and researcher keeps going. Haney, banks, & zimbrado (1973) - stanford prison experiment - where either prison guards or prisoners.
