Obedience Obedience is the process which leads a person – or an animal –‚ after listening to an order or a demand from an authoritative figure‚ to obey regardless of the consequences or moral implications derived from following that order or demand. The way in which this demand is followed can very; it can be in an active manner‚ in this case the obedient individual will do what they are told to; or in a passive one‚ where the individual will refrain from doing something‚ for the only reason that
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The Stanford Prison Experiment harbored interest concerning the psychological effects that would be exhibited from normal people when put into simulation prison. Stanford Prison experiment had elements of social structure of a real-life prison. Zimbardo himself held “ultimate” master status as the warden. Participants were selected by Zimbardo for the experiment. Participants held achieved - master status of prison guards and another group of male students were portraying inmates in the study
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David Irias Psychology 101 Stanford experiment 4-13-2015 The research experiment was conducted in 1971 by Phillip Zimbardo and some of his colleagues. They would build a mock prison with fake guards‚ fake prisoners‚ even a fake warden; all of this being conducted in a fake jail house where Phillip and his colleagues would observe everything from afar. The participants were chosen from a group of volunteers that had no criminal background‚ had no psychological issues‚ and had no extreme medical conditions
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Stanford Prison Experiment SPE The Stanford Prison Experiment has given a strong hint about how influential the society and situation can be. The experiment was originally designed to test whether the tension in prison was a cause of inmates’ inherently flawed personality; however‚ the result has revealed that any healthy human being can be transformed into a violent figure after being assigned a specific role and put in a designed situation. Indeed‚ the result was shocking‚ and the procedure
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What does The Stanford Prison Experiment reveal about humanity‚ and how does that tie in with Lord of the Flies? The Stanford Prison Experiment and Lord of the Flies Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Both The Stanford Prison Experiment and Lord of the Flies are about power‚ what it is‚ how it changes people‚ and even drive them to madness. The film and novel show that it is in human nature to abuse power‚ that humanity will crumble
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INTRODUCTION: In 1971‚ psychology professor‚ Philip Zimbardo‚ conducted a psychological experiment on Stanford University students sought to investigate the psychological effects of perceived roles and conformity to social expectations in a prison stimulating setting (Jeff Breil‚ Scott Plous‚ & David Jensenius‚ 2015). Participants were recruited through a newspaper ad‚ offering a $15 pay a day‚ and were picked up by California police officers. Participants were all young‚ college boys‚ who were
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Appearances are deceiving‚ and there’s often a better interpretation of a person by looking at their actions and motives. People can appear good on the outside‚ but be truly malicious and evil internally. In 1971‚ Philip Zimbardo‚ an American psychologist and past president of the American Psychological Association‚ investigated these reasons for evil through his experiment‚ called the Stanford Prison Experiment. He randomly picked mentally healthy college students to be play roles as prisoners and
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PSY-362 Social 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
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Answer the following questions in complete sentences‚ as provided for use by Cumbria University: 1. What is the title of the text and what is the text about? The title of the study I chose for this week is “Stanford prison experiment continues to shock”. The Stanford Prison Experiment was a psychological experiment designed to investigate human behavior. The experiment involved the assignment of volunteers who agreed to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a fake prison. It was conducted
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Devil within Sometimes we wonder why people do things. Is it because they were forced to? Maybe they were pressured into it‚ or maybe they thought it was the right thing to do. In the book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo he studies the psychological motives of humans and situational personalities. Zimbardo produced an experiment called the “Stanford prison experiment” which put one group of students as guards and another as the prisoners. The main point of the experiment was to watch
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