The Stanford Prison Experiment
The stanford prison experiment
Assignment #3
Watch the video on the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment available in the Webliography (Quiet Rage http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/quiet-rage-the-stanford-prison-experiment/). In your Threaded Discussion, worth 20 pts, post your thoughts regarding the following discussion questions excerpted from Zimbardo:
1) Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research? (The experimenters did not take this issue lightly, although the Slide Show may sound somewhat matter-of-fact about the events and experiences that occurred). "I think that it was ethical to do this study, I also don't think that it was right to do the study the way the researchers did."
2) How do the ethical dilemmas is this research compare with the ethical issues raised by Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments? Would it be better if these studies had never been done?
"I watched it and I understand why they did the research, the reasearchers where trying to see how depression/anger is developed by inflecting these acting inmates in various studys through acts of hazying and mistreatings and the researchers did acomplish this."
3) If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done this study? Would you have terminated it earlier? Would you have conducted a follow-up study?
"I would have termianted this study or stoped at a certain point and started a study on how to heal these people after such unnessay behavior instead of just leting the people continue to go about there lives being left as victumes of a experiment gone
Assignment #3
Watch the video on the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment available in the Webliography (Quiet Rage http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/quiet-rage-the-stanford-prison-experiment/). In your Threaded Discussion, worth 20 pts, post your thoughts regarding the following discussion questions excerpted from Zimbardo:
1) Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research? (The experimenters did not take this issue lightly, although the Slide Show may sound somewhat matter-of-fact about the events and experiences that occurred). "I think that it was ethical to do this study, I also don't think that it was right to do the study the way the researchers did."
2) How do the ethical dilemmas is this research compare with the ethical issues raised by Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments? Would it be better if these studies had never been done?
"I watched it and I understand why they did the research, the reasearchers where trying to see how depression/anger is developed by inflecting these acting inmates in various studys through acts of hazying and mistreatings and the researchers did acomplish this."
3) If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done this study? Would you have terminated it earlier? Would you have conducted a follow-up study?
"I would have termianted this study or stoped at a certain point and started a study on how to heal these people after such unnessay behavior instead of just leting the people continue to go about there lives being left as victumes of a experiment gone