The Stanford Prison Experiment Psychological studies are relatively new as far as the history of scientific research is concerned. As with anything‚ the rules for these experiments have evolved and become what they are today only through past circumstances. There are some main experiments in past psychological history‚ which became a true turning point and reasons for ethical guidelines to be placed. These experiments include the medical atrocities during WWII‚ the Tuskegee syphilis project‚
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Stanford Prison Experiment The aim of the Stanford Prison Experiment was to investigate how readily people would conform to the roles of guard and prisoner in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life. Zimbardo was interested in finding out whether the brutality reported among guards in American prisons was due to the sadistic personalities or had to do with the environment of prison itself. This two week experiment was abruptly ended after nine days due to the disturbing behaviour the guards
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Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment Aim: To test whether a person is predisposed to certain behaviour or whether the situation can affect their actions. Method: Zimbardo adapted the basement of Stanford University into a fake‚ but realistic prison‚ to replicate the psychological experience of imprisonment and deindividuation. Recruiting 25 emotionally stable‚ healthy‚ volunteers who were randomly assigned the role of prisoner or guard‚ expected to then act out their roles in a prison setting
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Part B: Report The Stanford Prison experiment was conducted to study the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard. It raised many speculations over the violation of basic ethical principles during the study. The study was shut down after six days rather than the two weeks planned‚ because of it’s impressive outcome. The experiment was unethical because the subjects were physically and emotionally harmed. The participants that played the role of the guards in the prison‚ took
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Milgram’s aim was to research how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities‚ for example‚ Germans in WWII. (McLeod 2007) The first ethical dilemma with Milgram’s experiment is deception. The experimenter deceived the participants‚ who were made to believe that they were truly inflicting pain on the learners and were purposely put in a position of high stress
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The script of the movie "Das Experiment" was written by Mario Giordano’s book "Black Box". The book is based on the real events that took place in 1971 and received the name of the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ organized by the American scientist Philip Zimbardo. The movie reflects many of the real events of the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ with the addition of the violent and sexual scenes in order to enhance the psychological effect on the audience. This experiment is a psychological research of
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The video contained the results and analysations of a social experiment called the Stanford Prison Experiment. This experiment watched over 24 young‚ healthy‚ college men. They then flipped a coin to see which 12 would act as guards and which 12 would act as prisoners inside of a prison simulation. They acted out this simulation for 6 days before it was cut short due to the amount of cruelty that the men were experiencing. Originally it was to last 2 weeks but after a few had to drop out due to mental
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Darley and Latané’s Training Manual—A Five-Stage Approach The purpose of Darley and Latané’s experiment was to look into the behaviour of witnesses. They wanted to look into what it takes for people‚ who witness something that requires their assistance‚ to ignore one’s call for help. They decided to focus on what happens when there is no authority in a group crisis. To find out answers‚ they decided to call for volunteer students from New York University. They told the students they were a part
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The Stanford Experiment is a study of experimental psychology conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 on the effects of the prison situation. It was created with students playing the roles of guards and prisoners. It was intended to study the behavior of ordinary people in such a context and effect was to show that this was the situation rather that the personality of the participants who was at the origin of behaviours sometimes opposite the values professed by participants before the start of the
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Abstract Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE)‚ investigating the effects of roles in a simulated prison environment‚ significantly impacted the psychological understanding of role conformity. However‚ recent evidence suggests results from this seminal experiment are less reflecting of role conformity‚ with findings alternatively attributed to demand characteristics. This critique is constructed as further examination of SPE revealed participants were able to predetermine the experimental hypothesis
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