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    Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment was a psychological study of human responses to captivity and its behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of psychologists led by Philip Zimbardo. Undergraduate volunteers played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. The experiment was intended to last two weeks but was cut short due to the rapid and alarming

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    Philip Zimbardo and His Contributions to Psychology Fall 2013 In today’s fast paced society many of us have a tough time dealing and coping with our problems. This is when psychologists come into play. Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It deals with the mind and how we process mental and emotional things. Philip Zimbardo’s thoughts on psychology are‚ “I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do

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    (n.d.). To test his theories‚ Zimbardo conducted a study‚ known as the Stanford Prison Study‚ which confirmed his theoretical development of deindividuation. Zimbardo postulates that the individual in a group is less likely to follow normal rules of behavior‚ partly because they become anonymous and the sense of responsibility fades. In addition‚

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    experiment lead to a disturbing results leaving the subjects in trauma. Psychologists must stop experiments that can harm an individual. This experiment was assembled by Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo‚ who directed this examination in 1971. This is the most well-known experiment that Zimbardo has ever done. Zimbardo demonstrated that giving a person power will

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    Socrates' Crito

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    The whole of the dialogue takes place at Socrates’ prison cell‚ where he awaits his execution just days away. It started with Socrates waking up and finding his friend and loyal disciple Crito there. When Socrates asked how Crito got inside the prison at that early an hour‚ Crito told him that he simply knows the guard and has done the guard some favor. Crito then informed Socrates that the ship from Delos has already come in and tomorrow will be his execution. Socrates then told Crito about a dream

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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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    The advancement of technology over the last decade has been used to further security methods in society. Devices such as surveillance systems in stores have caught suspects and decreased crime‚ but only by a mere 0.05% (specifically in Chicago‚ which currently has 15‚000 cameras throughout the city). So‚ does this implementation of surveillance really make people behave? The texts “Panopticism” by Michel Foucault and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey both focus on how to make people behave

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    Milgram’s experiment in 1960 by social psychologist Dr. Stanely Milgram’s (1963‚ 1965) was a controversial experiment. He researched the effect of authority on obedience. I don’t think the scientific community overreacted to this experiment because it is unethical to reduce subjects to "twitching shuttering wrecks". Though the human mind is amazing strong we still do not know its breaking point. For interviewers to carry out the kind of experiment they did‚ they have to be willing to face the consequences

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