Question

Jonathan, as a new police officer, believed that his job was to help people in the community. His partner, who is an experienced officer, told Jonathan that being a good officer involved looking for any reason to arrest and detain others. Jonathan now spends his day trying to arrest as many people as possible. Based on the findings of Zimbardo's prison study, Jonathan's change in attitude about his job illustrates the impact of?

Answer 1

Role playing on attitudes

Step-by-step explanation:

The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by the researcher Zimbardo, focused on human psychology and the affect of role playing and power. Role playing is found to change the attitude and behavior of an individual if they decide to take on a role in seriousness. This role playing can be of vital influence as a research study found that students who have been involved in role playing and drama plays tend to focus on the attitude, behavior and emotions of the role so much that they sometimes overlook their own behavior and attitude taking up the role in actual life. Here, Jonathan has been told by his experienced partner to look for any reason to arrest and detain others and hence, the use or abuse of power combined with role playing effect leads to role playing on attitude.