Serious Questions about the Stanford Prison Experiment July 15‚ 2008 The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) by Phil Zimbardo has been for me an example of the astonishing things that we humans are capable of. I guess as an example of human gullibility‚ I had not been skeptical about the experiment‚ which lacks quite a few scientific markers (aside from its ethical problems). During a talk by Barbara Oakley‚ she was asked to comment about the SPE because it showed the influence the situation and roles
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What can we learn from the Stanford Prison Experiment? There is no doubt that the study conducted by Dr Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University was extremely valuable to not only the Psychology profession‚ but also to all social science fields. He tested and selected participates to recreate a prison environment separating one group into two‚ guards and prisoners‚ and the results were truly ground breaking. A lot of significant information was gathered and the results help us understand
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Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment in 1971 to see how readily people would conform to the roles of guard and prisoner in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life (Zimbardo - Stanford Prison Experiment‚ 2008). This experiment was called The Stanford Prison Experiment and it was conducted at Stanford University. While the real life situation that was being mentioned‚ connected and relevant to Zimbardo’s experiment is the Abu Ghraib prison abuses. Abu Ghraib prison was a U.S. Army detention
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16 October 2017 Zimbardo’s Experiment In 1971‚ Zimbardo conducted an experiment which is known as The Standford Prison Experiment. It took place in the basement of a psychology department‚ which was constructed to feel like an actual prison‚ and the participants were paid to either choose the role as a prisoner or guard in attempt to gaining a better understanding of human interaction and its effect on human behavior. Zimbardo predicted that from this experiment that the goodness in people would
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The milgram experiment. The three people involved were: the one running the experiment‚ the subject of the experiment a volunteer‚ and a person pretending to be a volunteer. These three persons fill three distinct roles: the Experimenter an authoritative role‚ the Teacher a role intended to obey the orders of the Experimenter‚ and the Learner the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher. The subject and the actor both drew slips of paper to determine their roles‚ but unknown to the subject‚ both slips
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The Standford Prison Experiment was conducted in 1971 at Standford University by American psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo. The experiment supposedly intended to “measure the effect of role-playing‚ labelling‚ and social expectations on behaviour‚” by having twenty-four college students recreate daily life in a correctional facility. All volunteers are subject to a personality test. Anyone with mental disorders or illnesses‚ disabilities‚ or violent personality traits is disqualified. The remaining
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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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HOFLING HOSPITAL EXPERIMENT Hofling 1966 He wanted to see if nurses would follow orders given by an authority figure (Doctor) when the orders are given over the phone and would be breaking regulations. To study obedience in a real life setting. -The experiment involved public and private hospital wards. In Hospital ONE; 21 student nurses and 12 graduate nurses were asked to complete a questionnaire asking them what they would do if confronted by the experimental situation. This was to be the control
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Zimbardo Prison Experiments The Zimbardo prison experiment was set up to investigate the problem of what the psychological effects for normal people result from being a guard or inmate‚ and in a broader sense are normal people capable of being ‘evil.’ The research question being asked was‚ “How would normal people react to being in a simulated prison environment? In Zimbardo’s own words‚ "Suppose you had only kids who were normally healthy‚ psychologically and physically‚ and they knew they would
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Zimbardo?s‚ Stanford experiment ended quickly because of ethical issues from the start of the experiment. The research improperly analyzed‚ allowed the experiment to become a blurred research. The roll playing
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