If I Was A Prisoner In The Stanford Prison Experiment
If you were placed in the same situation as the participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment, how do you think you would react? If I was placed in this experiment, I think, would react differently whether I was a guard or a prisoner. If I was a guard I think conform more to the group influence because of the effect of having the power over someone else. I think that it would be easy to get caught up in having all the power in this experiment. However I think my attitude would be different If I was a prisoner in the experiment. If I was a prisoner, I would try to follow the rules given by the guards and try to be the ideal prisoner. While, I would try to follow the rules I don’t think I could continue being able to submit with the guard
were treating the prisoner was less than human. I feel that I would end up rebelling against the guards and or go on a hunger strike like on the prisoners in the actual experiment. In both of these situations I feel that I would be pulled out of my character to suit the role I now had to play.
In Your opinion, why have the recommendations of Haney& Zimbardo and the lessons learned from the experiment not been heeded by policy makers? In my opinion the reason why Haney and Zimbardo lessons from the Stanford prison experiment have not been heeded by policy maker is because many people believe the experiment is not realistic. Many people like David T. Lykken believe that the Stanford experiment was not realistic enough to compare to life in prison. Many of the arguments were that the experiment was not long enough and that's where the experiment took place was not the same as an actual prison.
Is rehabilitation of prisoners plausible social policy, as Haney & Zimbardo believe, or prisoners beyond hope of reform? I think that it is plausible for prisoners to be rehabilitated as Haney & Zimbardo believed. I think the behavior of prison has a lot to do with the roles that prisoner have to take on to make it through prison. Then prisoners should be able to get out of those roles a well. While I think it is easy to stop that habits that would land you in prison while, the person is you I still believe that everyone deserves a second chance.
Do you think that the Stanford Prison Experiment was ethical? Why or Why not? The Stanford Prison Experiment was not ethical for many reasons. First the prisoners were made to feel that they could not leave when they wanted. This goes against the ethics of the experiment because the participants were not too they could leave at any time. Also, some of the psychologist were involved in the experiment as well conducting at the experiment, which did not make they unbiased to the experiment. Another reason, this experiment is unethical because this experiment would not be able to be repeated to see if different psychologist could get the same result as the Stanford Prisoner Experiment.
were treating the prisoner was less than human. I feel that I would end up rebelling against the guards and or go on a hunger strike like on the prisoners in the actual experiment. In both of these situations I feel that I would be pulled out of my character to suit the role I now had to play.
In Your opinion, why have the recommendations of Haney& Zimbardo and the lessons learned from the experiment not been heeded by policy makers? In my opinion the reason why Haney and Zimbardo lessons from the Stanford prison experiment have not been heeded by policy maker is because many people believe the experiment is not realistic. Many people like David T. Lykken believe that the Stanford experiment was not realistic enough to compare to life in prison. Many of the arguments were that the experiment was not long enough and that's where the experiment took place was not the same as an actual prison.
Is rehabilitation of prisoners plausible social policy, as Haney & Zimbardo believe, or prisoners beyond hope of reform? I think that it is plausible for prisoners to be rehabilitated as Haney & Zimbardo believed. I think the behavior of prison has a lot to do with the roles that prisoner have to take on to make it through prison. Then prisoners should be able to get out of those roles a well. While I think it is easy to stop that habits that would land you in prison while, the person is you I still believe that everyone deserves a second chance.
Do you think that the Stanford Prison Experiment was ethical? Why or Why not? The Stanford Prison Experiment was not ethical for many reasons. First the prisoners were made to feel that they could not leave when they wanted. This goes against the ethics of the experiment because the participants were not too they could leave at any time. Also, some of the psychologist were involved in the experiment as well conducting at the experiment, which did not make they unbiased to the experiment. Another reason, this experiment is unethical because this experiment would not be able to be repeated to see if different psychologist could get the same result as the Stanford Prisoner Experiment.