This essay is designed in two parts. The first part of the essay will attempt to explain ethics in a general context and evaluate the reasons why we need ethics when people undertake research. The second part of the essay will focus on the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ by Zimbardo in 1971 and critically analyse its relation to and impact on ethics. Ethics is involved in many parts of human life. One example is to guide humans to make decisions (Darwall‚ 1998). Humans make decisions because these
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The Stanford Experiment is a study of experimental psychology conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 on the effects of the prison situation. It was created with students playing the roles of guards and prisoners. It was intended to study the behavior of ordinary people in such a context and effect was to show that this was the situation rather that the personality of the participants who was at the origin of behaviours sometimes opposite the values professed by participants before the start of the
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Kia Champ February 20‚ 2013 Learn from Outside Choice The lecture I attended for the Learn outside of the classroom assignment was After Learning: Education on a Hot Planet by Dr. Bennett Ramsey. He discussed ways in where our culture should provide students with the knowledge‚ skills and perspective necessary to meet today’s challenges. He stated that the world of education is rooted in economic root of fantasy growth for prosperity‚ but we are not growing because we are hitting limits. Growth
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Hum 105~World Mythology Assignment One How is the word myth used popularly? For example‚ what does the statement‚ “It’s a myth” mean? In contrast‚ how is the word myth used in the academic context? After considering the definition in your textbooks and course materials‚ write a definition in your own words. The word myth is used most popularly in tales and stories. These tales and stories have been passed down from generation to generation and are based on some truth‚ but mostly an idea
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Centers and Peripheries George Bancroft- Not officially a historian Charles Austin Beard- Officially historian Bancroft: Philosophical ideals Beard: Economic Determinism Sources- Primary(he looks into documents(constitution)) ‚ Secondary(Books he wrote about)‚ All suspicious (victims to their own prejudice) Fredrick Jackson Turner “The aim of history‚ then ‚ is to know the elements of the present by understanding Analysis (SPEC) Social Political Economic Cultural
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Andrew McClarren 12/1/12 Stanford Prison Study Paper The Stanford Prison Study was a very eye opening experiment because it was performed in 1971‚ before modern American Psychological Association guidelines were implemented. As young adults we’ve never seen anything like this experiment before. The power of this situation was exceptionally strong‚ especially to us. In the study‚ how easily normal students could be transformed into either a satanic guard or a submissive prisoner was astonishing
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The articles “The Stanford Prison Experiment” written by Philip G. Zimbardo and “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience” composed by Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton both focus on the effects of power. In which the subjects have been ordered to follow something by superiors. In the experiment the original group of subjects are divided into the role of guards‚ and inmates. The massacre‚ however‚ was not an experiment but was the result of an order issued by a higher ranking official
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Part B: Report The Stanford Prison experiment was conducted to study the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard. It raised many speculations over the violation of basic ethical principles during the study. The study was shut down after six days rather than the two weeks planned‚ because of it’s impressive outcome. The experiment was unethical because the subjects were physically and emotionally harmed. The participants that played the role of the guards in the prison‚ took
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