Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sherif Evaluation
- The study is high in ecological validity as it is based
on a summer camp and involves activities
commonly carried out in these camps
- Can be applied to real life by helping
reduce prejudice between groups in
society through the use of superordinate
goals
- Researcher still had some control over the
variables, Sherif was able to introduce the
element of competition into the study
- The study is ethnocentric as
participants were all 12 years old and
white middle class American boys
- So generalisation to the American
population as a whole is not possible
- The participants were unaware they were
taking part so could not give their consent
or have the right to withdraw
- it is vulnerable to extraneous variables as the
situation is not carefully controlled
- There are less possibility of demand
characteristics as pps were unaware they
were taking part and are so less likely to act
up