Zimbardo Research Paper Christina Parker PSYCH 620 October 21‚ 2013 Stacy Hernandez Zimbardo Research Paper Dr. Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) in 1971‚ but the data from that project is as useful in today’s society as it was then. The question now is what impact the study had on social psychology‚ the value of the study‚ the study’s relevance to contemporary world issues‚ the value of the study to humanity as a whole‚ problems and ethical concerns created by the study
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obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities‚ for example‚ Germans in WWII. (McLeod 2007) The first ethical dilemma with Milgram’s experiment is deception. The experimenter deceived the participants‚ who were made to believe that they were truly inflicting pain on the learners and were purposely put in a position of high stress. Some teachers even believed they had badly hurt‚ or even
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aggression (McLeod‚ 2011). Albert Bandura decided to conduct an experiment to test if other peoples’ actions influenced our emotions and thoughts. His experiment would be focused around aggression and included kids‚ adults and various toys. These kids would be from ages 3-5 year olds. Bandura would put kids in a room with an adult with a couple of toys; one being a giant inflatable doll better known as the Bobo doll. In his experiment‚ he had the child present in the room while the adult was hitting
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Connecting the Stanford Prison Experiment to the Lord of the Flies “But look out the evil is in all of us” stated William Golding in his novel Lord of the Flies. This quote means; watch out‚ because even the sweetest have evil on the inside. Golding’s novel and the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo‚ both show a very disturbing transformation of young men. Evil became trapped inside the young boys of Golding’s novel‚ and the young men in the Experiment. Once innocent‚ now turned
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Medical Experiments on Prisoners Biology October 19‚ 2012 Good and bad exist in every society. No one or thing is perfect whether one is referring to inanimate objects‚ plants‚ food or humans. The movie “The Bad Seed” was based on the life of two children. One child was “good” and one theoretically bad. It made the statement that some people are predetermined to be “bad” or evil. The value of an object or person is determined by who is looking. Even when one makes bad choices
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Experiment An experiment starts with A question A wondering A hypothesis What would happen if I didn’t skip breakfast? How would I feel if I skipped lunch? Made some coffee instead‚ Forget‚ Tell myself that I’m too busy What are the results Of my little experiment With self-control? The History of the Dressing Room “You’re being ridiculous‚” Mom sighs‚ exasperated‚ as she walks out of the dressing room. The door slams behind her and tears fall faster. I pull myself into a standing position
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Over in Sordaria Background Sordaria fimicola is an ascomycete fungus that can be used to demonstrate the results of crossing over during meiosis. Sordaria is a haploid organism for most of its life cycle. It becomes diploid only when the fusion of the mycelia of two different strains results in the fusion of the two different types of haploid nuclei to form a diploid nucleus. The diploid nucleus must then undergo meiosis to resume its haploid state. Meiosis‚ followed by mitosis‚ in Sordaria results
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Gene Mapping in Ascospore Sordaria Cultures by Recombination Abstract The laboratory experiment demonstrates the process of meiosis using the Sordaria Fimicola fungi. Meiosis is important because it is the process that generates diversity in genetics. A wildtype was crossed with two mutant types: tan and grey. In order to exhibit recombination‚ the sequence of ascospores needed to result in a 2:2:2:2 or 2:4:2 sequence. From the crossover
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were not strong and can easily be affected by external factor which led to an “different” behavior. These factor can be culture‚ social norms‚ ethics of a society‚ religious inclination‚ coercion‚ and human influence by authority. The milgram experiment showed that our behaviors can be drastically impacted by higher-level authority factor. Several test subjects were given the authority to shock a subject when answering a question incorrectly‚ under the supervision of a “professional doctor”. Over
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A Critique of Philip Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment “The Experiment”‚ an American film in 2010‚ was directed by Paul Scheuring‚ and starred by Adrian Brody‚ 2003 Academy Award’s Best Actor‚ and Forest Whitaker‚ a remarkable American actor and director. In the movie‚ an astounding experiment is conducted by a group of psychological researchers who recruit a group of volunteers to join a prison experiment for cash reward. For two weeks‚ twenty male participants are hired to play “prisoners” and
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