An Overview of The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment was designed and conducted by a Social Psychologist Dr. Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971. According to Zimbardo (1971)‚ the experiment was intended to better interpret “the basic psychological mechanisms underlying human aggression” (p. 1). The experiment’s goal was to test the dispositional hypothesis - whether the uncontrollable violence within an ordinary prison environment was legitimately caused by the existing
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Psychology 270 - 03 Homework Assignment 1 Prison Experiment (100 Pts) Go to the following site:http://www.prisonexp.org/. Click on Begin SlideShow at the bottom of the page. Read through the article and watch the video in entirety. Respond to all questions below. 1. If you were a guard in this scenario‚ what type of guard would you have become? Why? 2. What prevented "good guards" from objecting to or countermanding the orders from “tough” or “bad guards”?
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Zimbardo’s Prison Study was a highly controversial experiment‚ infamous for its questionable ethics. This type of study would not be able to be recreated again mainly due to current APA standards. It can be argued as well that this experiment violated ethics standards of its time as well. The APA’s Ethical Principles includes five basic principles (“Ethical Principles”). Principle A‚ Beneficence and Nonmaleficence‚ states that psychologists seek to “be aware of the possible effect of their own physical
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In August of 1971‚ Phillip Zimbardo constructed a mock correctional facility. Placing an ad in a local newspaper‚ and with over 70 responses‚ he conducted interviews with 70 male candidates across the U.S. and out of those 70 candidates 24 of them were sorted out through mental diseases‚ drug abuse‚ and 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
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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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Stanford Prison Experiment SPE The Stanford Prison Experiment has given a strong hint about how influential the society and situation can be. The experiment was originally designed to test whether the tension in prison was a cause of inmates’ inherently flawed personality; however‚ the result has revealed that any healthy human being can be transformed into a violent figure after being assigned a specific role and put in a designed situation. Indeed‚ the result was shocking‚ and the procedure
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The Stanford prison and BBC prison Experiments comparison In summary the studies showed that the behavior of the ‘normal’ students who had been randomly allocated to each condition‚ was affected by the role they had been assigned‚ to the extent that they seemed to believe in their allocated positions. The studies therefore reject the dispositional hypothesis. The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrates the powerful role that the situation can play in human behavior. Because the guards were placed
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263) apply in this case. I‚ personally‚ could not blindly comply‚ but it’s also situational. If I were in the military‚ I would have to comply or face a possible court martial. I don’t see a correlation between college students being paid to play prison guards (who are taking on an authoritative persona in a campus basement) to American soldiers guarding detainees at Abu Garaib during wartime‚ knowing that these said detainees more than likely want to kill Americans. U.S. soldiers take an oath
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Investigation The Stanford Prison Experiment Give a basic (introductory only) overview of the study and what occurred • Professor Zimbardio sought to investigate how situational variables impact human behaviour‚ the Stanford Prison Experiment focuses on the roles of ‘guard’ or ‘prisoner’. • During the experiment the guards became increasingly abusive‚ and the prisoners began to show signs of extreme stress and anxiety. • Even professor Zimbardo exhibited the mindset of a prison warden in the experiment
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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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