An Overview of The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment was designed and conducted by a Social Psychologist Dr. Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971. According to Zimbardo (1971)‚ the experiment was intended to better interpret “the basic psychological mechanisms underlying human aggression” (p. 1). The experiment’s goal was to test the dispositional hypothesis - whether the uncontrollable violence within an ordinary prison environment was legitimately caused by the existing
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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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263) apply in this case. I‚ personally‚ could not blindly comply‚ but it’s also situational. If I were in the military‚ I would have to comply or face a possible court martial. I don’t see a correlation between college students being paid to play prison guards (who are taking on an authoritative persona in a campus basement) to American soldiers guarding detainees at Abu Garaib during wartime‚ knowing that these said detainees more than likely want to kill Americans. U.S. soldiers take an oath
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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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The Stanford Prison experiment‚ in my opinion is a remarkable experiment . It isn’t ethical in the least but the results that have emerged have exceeded even what Mr.Zimbardo set out to do. The aim of seeing whether people change their basic personalities ‚ moralities ‚ values when subjected to an external hostile environment has been successfully proven. My honest opinion is that ‚ at that time in 1971 ‚ it was rational enough to think about going out of the way to get an answer to a particular
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The Stanford prison experiment was organized by three psychologists from Stanford University with a purpose is to observe the behavior between guards and prisoners in a simulated environment‚ and whether or not a prison environment aided in rehabilitating inmates‚ or increased the possibility of violent behavior. Formal hypotheses were developed describing that an assignment to either role of prisoner or guard would result in significantly different reactions on behavioral measures of interaction
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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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American contemporary social psychologist and was a professor of psychology at Stanford University. Zimbardo is best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment where he wanted to explore the idea of power of anonymity which enables the tendency of violent behaviours regardless of if‚ they are overall good people. Therefore‚ he held an experiment with 24 “good apples” (Zimbardo 52) in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life. He wanted to test how promptly a person is willing to uphold the roles
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that took place during the procedure 3 The end of the experiment 6 The conclusion and the criticism of the experiment 6 The Conclusion 6 The Criticism 7 References 8 Description of the experiment‚ and information about Zimbardo The Stanford prison experiment was an experiment conducted by a group of researchers and led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. Zimbardo was born in New York City on March 23‚ 1933. He completed his BA in Brooklyn College with a triple major in sociology‚ anthropology
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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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