speaks of the psychological affects on the ‘teacher’ but not the ‘student’; where the ‘student’ and ‘teacher’ were placed in separate rooms and an instructor was placed in the same room as the ‘teacher’ convincing the ‘teacher’ to continue with the experiment no matter what the ‘student’ does or say. The ‘teacher’ was required to administer shocks to the ‘student’ if the ‘student’ answered incorrectly‚ and the shocks became more and more dangerous with each wrong question. Many of the ‘teachers’ hesitated
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and importance of this concept to the critical evaluation of two pieces of social psychological research. The two pieces of research chosen to illustrate this “Crowds”‚ the focus of which will be the Stanford prison experiment by Zimbardo (1971) and Professors Haslam and Reicher’s (2002) Prison experiment. Dixon and Mahendran (2012). The second piece of research “Bystander intervention” focusing on Darley and Latane’s experimental study on the Kitty Genovese murder and Cherry’s feminist critique. Burr
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put into new behavioral settings. This book is unique in many ways. It provides for the first time a detailed chronology of the transformations in human character that took place during the experiment I created that randomly assigned healthy‚ normal intelligent college students to play the roles of prison or guard in a projected 2 week-long study. I was forced to terminate the study after only 6 days because it went out of control‚ pacifists were becoming sadistic guards‚ and normal kids were breaking
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Effect by Philip Zimbardo he studies the psychological motives of humans and situational personalities. Zimbardo produced an experiment called the “Stanford prison experiment” which put one group of students as guards and another as the prisoners. The main point of the experiment was to watch the prisoners and see how they reacted to being detained; however‚ when the experiment was conducted it was the guards who were more interesting to study. When looking at the students who were selected to be
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in the field‚ the experiments tend to go beyond these guidelines and in turn cause the Ethics Code to once again be revised to attempt to prevent future harm. I researched one situation in particular of when ethical standards were severely violated. The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is an incredible story of how the APA standards were of no use and proved to actually destroy lives in search of scientific discovery. Twenty four college students participated in this experiment‚ and were told that
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dangerous‚ period. What is even more frightening is when someone hurts themselves or others due to an authority figure’s direct influence on them. In the infamous psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram’s‚ experiment‚ people were told to administer shock to a peer for not answering a question correctly. This experiment shows the dangers of obeying authority. Though the “peers” were acting‚ the subjects fully believed they were truly administering shock to another human being. This shows that the line between
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Zimbardo experiments. These experiments were to test people’s obedience to authority - or a man in a lab coat. Milgram’s experiment was the first of its kind‚ seeing as how similar experiments were repeated afterward‚ and he wanted to prove that authority was a major part in why people listened to others. This experiment was started after a german soldier claimed he shouldn’t be prosecuted for torturing people during World War Two because he was ‘just following orders’. Of course‚ this experiment has
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obedience but focused more on conformity. He fulfilled this through an experiment called the Stanford Prison Experiment. The experiment was a prison simulation in the basement of a building on Stanford’s campus‚ where students from the college played different roles. Half of them were " guards" and the other half were "prisoners." Philip Zimbardo’s article titled "The Stanford Prison Experiment" gives insight on conformity‚ and how the prison guards and convicts would tend to slip into predefined roles. Resulting
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is one who has adapted the branch of social psychology. His biggest contribution is his 1971 Stanford prison experiment which was created to research the effects situational forces have on human demeanor (verywell). This was Philip’s main area of focus in his career. “In the study‚ 24 male university students were randomly assigned to act as ‘prisoners’ or ‘guards’ in a mock prison” (famous). The experiment didn’t last for more than a week due to the drastic change in behavior shown by all the students
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that environment. Unfortunately the sad reality is that these extreme environments usually take control over one’s behaviour and beliefs. This was proved in various experiments conducted such as Milgram’s Experiment on Obedience and Conformity and Zimbardo’s Experiment on the “Pathology of Prisoners”. Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience and Conformity. Under certain circumstances ordinary individuals‚ with no prior sadistic or violent history‚ can be pressured and convinced into harming
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