Psychology 270 - 03 Homework Assignment 1 Prison Experiment (100 Pts) Go to the following site:http://www.prisonexp.org/. Click on Begin SlideShow at the bottom of the page. Read through the article and watch the video in entirety. Respond to all questions below. 1. If you were a guard in this scenario‚ what type of guard would you have become? Why? 2. What prevented "good guards" from objecting to or countermanding the orders from “tough” or “bad guards”?
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Explain the impact of the Stanford prison experiment on psychology and behaviour. The Stanford prison experiment ‚led by professor Philip Zimbardo‚ was aimed at seeing the effect on people on becoming prisoners or prison guards. The idea was to see what happens to people when they are put in relatively ‘evil’ places. Do the people themselves become evil or is there no net effect? The results indicated that in fact people adapt to their role exceptionally well. It was observed that the prison guards
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Escape From Camp 14 ‚ by Blaine Harden‚ is about the only man who managed to escape from North Korea’s high security concentration camp‚ Camp 14‚ and lived to tell his story. Shin Dong-Hyuk was born in Camp 14. His mother and father got married inside the camp as a prize for their obedience and hard work‚ Shin’s brother and father lived in other facilities inside the camp‚ and they never lived together as a family. He was trained to snitch on his family‚ classmates and coworkers and vice versa. He
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In 1971‚ psychologist Phillip Zimbardo set out to create an experiment that looked at the impact of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard. The experiment was to test human behavior when one’s role had been altered into authoritative one. Still powerful after all these years the experiment was the most powerful and popular experiment of all time (O’Toole‚ K). Researches set up a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University building. There were the 24 students out of 70 volunteers chosen to
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Why Not Everyone Is A Torturer - Oliver Behrensdorff What are the causes of atrocity events such as the massacre at My Lai‚ the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib or the extermination of Jews during World War II? Whether groups of people bestowed with unaccountable power naturally resort to violence or not‚ the subject is indeed controversial. Arguably‚ the less restrictions that one must follow‚ the higher the risk becomes of one to condone violence. However‚ how can we explain
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"The Stanford Prison Experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity‚ in particular‚ to the real world circumstances of prison life." What was a psychological study? More as‚ what was the Stanford Prison Experiment? As soon as those words popped up on my screen‚ the very next thing I did was Google it. The very first things that appeared was a deep explanation of exactly what it was; "an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of power between prisoners and
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The Monster’s True Intent The monster study was an experiment conducted in Davenport‚ Iowa by a man named Wendell Johnson. At the time the experiment took place‚ it was thought that the speech impediment of stuttering was something you were either born with or not born with. Wendell on the other hand thought differently. He believed that it was something you could make worse or maybe you could cause people without stuttering issues‚ to start to stutter. He decided to test this buy taking in twenty-two
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I captured the sight of the sun rising through my blurred safety glass window‚ must be morning. Awakening in the same claustrophobic battle scarred room has been my life for 3 years now. Getting to my feet I peer through the withered cast iron bars of my cell to see the guards carrying out the routine cell checks. This time something was different. I see a guard broadcasting to a fellow officer for assistance a small number of cells down from me. I feel a cold shiver ran down my back. This occurs
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Wuthering Heights: Cops and Robbers Philip Zimbardo‚ featured on a Democracy Now! Daily Show news segment hosted by Amy Goodman‚ conducts an experiment at Stanford University in 1971 to examine the psychological effects of roles in prison life. The requirements for participants: average‚ middle-class‚ intelligent‚ healthy‚ male college student. Out of the 75 applicants‚ 24 are selected based on their reactions to a succession of interviews and personality tests. The 24 college students selected are
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People sometimes act in ways they know to be wrong or unethical because they see people of a higher authority do it. For example‚ In Milgram’s obedience experiment‚ test subjects who were referred to as the “teacher‚” were told to give an electric shock to a complete stranger who was referred to as the “student‚” if they got an answer wrong on a test. The test subject was told the shock would get increasingly more dangerous each time the student got the answer wrong. When the teacher wanted to stop
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