Psychology and Cultural Applications Stanford Prison Experiment Directions: Answer each of the questions below with a minimum of 200-words. Use scholarly research to support your answers. Include APA in-text citations in your answers where necessary and list your reference at the end of the document. 1. Do you think that kids from an urban working-class environment would have broken down emotionally in the same way as did the middle-class prisoners? Why? What do you suppose the outcome would have
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The Stanford Prison Experiment Give a basic (introductory only) overview of the study and what occurred • Professor Zimbardio sought to investigate how situational variables impact human behaviour‚ the Stanford Prison Experiment focuses on the roles of ‘guard’ or ‘prisoner’. • During the experiment the guards became increasingly abusive‚ and the prisoners began to show signs of extreme stress and anxiety. • Even professor Zimbardo exhibited the mindset of a prison warden in the experiment. Outline
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The Stanford prison and BBC prison Experiments comparison In summary the studies showed that the behavior of the ‘normal’ students who had been randomly allocated to each condition‚ was affected by the role they had been assigned‚ to the extent that they seemed to believe in their allocated positions. The studies therefore reject the dispositional hypothesis. The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrates the powerful role that the situation can play in human behavior. Because the guards were placed
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Cody Porter ACP Comp‚ Period 2 November 25‚ 2013 Redo Critique Paper Diana Baumrind’s Review on Obedience Experiments from Stanley Milgram In Diana Baumrind’s “Review on Obedience Experiments from Stanley Milgram‚ she asserted that his experiments were unethical in its procedure. She also states the main idea that the variables in the experiments could have affected their results of obedience. Baumrind points out that there should have been more and better steps in having safer tests in protecting
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Security Guard Do you feel the security guard took the right action? Would you have taken the same action? Why or why not? Mr. Tuff‚ having had a four-year stint in the Marine Corps as a policeman‚ is still a fairly young and inexperienced person in the business world. The military is very strict when it comes to their procedures and policies and Mr. Tuff‚ now having firsthand knowledge in following rules‚ is using his experience to enable him to pursue a job as a security guard. It seems
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Obedience to Our Parents To be obedient is to obey the orders of one’s elders and superiors. There cannot be order unless there is obedience. One has to obey the laws of the country‚ otherwise the society cannot exist. The laws may be irksome‚ but‚ for the overall good of the law one must obey them. For instance‚ the laws to be obeyed on the road ensures road safety. The laws pertaining to property help society continue without hitches and hindrances. Even in our body our limbs obey the commands
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Introduction A security guard (or security officer) is a person who is paid to protect property‚ assets and people. Security guards are usually privately and formally employed personnel. Often‚ security officers are uniformed and act to protect property by maintaining a high visibility presence to deter illegal and inappropriate actions‚ observing (either directly‚ through patrols‚ or by watching alarm systems or video cameras) for signs of crime‚ fire or disorder‚ then taking action and reporting
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Throughout the ages‚ people have always followed the orders of a person with a higher status: students have always listened to their teacher‚ Catholics have always listened to their priests‚ and soldiers have always listened to their commander. However this norm is not always acceptable‚ especially when the followers blindly obey the authority. Throughout this paper I will explore why people are so willing to accept orders particularly in dire situations and how this psychological phenomenon can be addressed
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The Abu Ghirab prison was the most horrific‚ brutal and dehumanizing thing I have even come across. The level of suffering the inmates experienced words cannot express how terrifying it is. There were male as well as female and even worst‚ children was in that dreadful place. They were treated worse than animals in my opinion‚ I cannot see in no one lives they should have to encounter such gruesome experience. The Stanford prison experiment was conducted on August 14th to 20th‚ 1971.The team of researchers
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In August of 1971‚ a group of researchers‚ headed by Dr. Philip Zimbardo‚ at Stanford University‚ set out to learn just how prison affects a person psychologically. The results of this experiment were shocking‚ to say the least‚ and led that team of researchers‚ and many others‚ to question just how bad the prison systems of America really are. The results of this experiment were far more devastating and shocking than anyone involved had imagined. Those involved had forgotten they were playing
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