PSY-362 Social Psychology and Cultural Applications Stanford Prison Experiment Directions: Answer each of the questions below with a minimum of 200-words. Use scholarly research to support your answers. Include APA in-text citations in your answers where necessary and list your reference at the end of the document. 1. Do you think that kids from an urban working-class environment would have broken down emotionally in the same way as did the middle-class prisoners? Why? What do you suppose the outcome
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The video contained the results and analysations of a social experiment called the Stanford Prison Experiment. This experiment watched over 24 young‚ healthy‚ college men. They then flipped a coin to see which 12 would act as guards and which 12 would act as prisoners inside of a prison simulation. They acted out this simulation for 6 days before it was cut short due to the amount of cruelty that the men were experiencing. Originally it was to last 2 weeks but after a few had to drop out due to mental
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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 decisions
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ABU GHRAIB - A Coverage Comparison & Analysis CNN (Western Media) vs. al Jazeera On Wednesday‚ April 28‚ 2004‚ a series of pictures broadcast on CBV “60 Minutes II” prompted an worldwide media frenzy that challenged America’s so-called moral superiority‚ complicated the fight against terror in the Middle East‚ crippled U.S. relations with the international community and elicited public demands for high-level accountability. The physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse‚ including torture‚ rape
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Summary of the Stanford Prison Experiment Nicole Bennett University of Winnipeg The Stanford Prison Experiment involved 24 male college students from North America who volunteered locally through advertisements in newspapers. The volunteers had to be living or staying in the Stanford area‚ totally healthy – psychologically‚ mentally‚ emotionally and physically – as well as willing to participate in the study for around 1-2 weeks. For their participation‚ volunteers would receive a $15 per day
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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 advantage
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The Stanford Prison Experiment harbored interest concerning the psychological effects that would be exhibited from normal people when put into simulation prison. Stanford Prison experiment had elements of social structure of a real-life prison. Zimbardo himself held “ultimate” master status as the warden. Participants were selected by Zimbardo for the experiment. Participants held achieved - master status of prison guards and another group of male students were portraying inmates in the study
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This study was conducted by Professor Phillip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971. Zimbardo wanted to find out if a situation can control the person or can an individual’s beliefs‚ attitude and values would allow one to rise above their current situation. He wanted to look more in-depth in the behavioral and sociological consequences in the roles of the guard and prisoner. Also‚ he wanted to find out why and how social situations can overwhelm people. In order to find study subjects‚ Zimbardo
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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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psychological issues. With a pay of $15/a day‚ he divided the candidates‚ 9 guards and 9 prisoners. He constructed the basement floor at Stanford into a correctional facility taking the doors off hinges and replacing them with steel door with bars and cell numbers. Each prisoner was stripped and searched and sprayed‚ the same way as if they were going to a real prison. Each prisoner was given robes to wear with their own prisoner number on the back and on the front‚ and they could only go by prisoner
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