The Stanley Milgram experiment takes normal everyday people and gives them orders to do horrible things. The test is to see if someone would do an awful act just on the basis of someone telling them to. This experiment speaks to the ’nature of responsibility’ and to see if the subject will stop the experiment due to its dangerous nature. The subject is tricked into thinking they are the teacher‚ and the other person in the room‚ an actor‚ is the learner. The teacher will ask the learner a series
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watched the Milgram experiment during the first lecture. The result of the experiment was very shocking to me – over half of the subjects would keep shocking the ‘learners’ until the end just because the experimenters required them to do so‚ even though the learners cried desperately for help. I think this experiment has fully revealed the destructive side of authority‚ which can turn a mature and conscientious adult into a tool for punishment or even killing. The experiment reminds me of the painful
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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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Yale University psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ conducted an experiment in 1961 focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors. Milgram’s experiment‚ which he told his participants was about learning‚ was to have participants (teacher) question
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The Stanford Prison Experiment was a very unique and brutal experiment. In 1973 the professor Philip G. Zimbardo set out to study how normal subjects such as college aged men would react as “prisoners” and “guards” in a mock prison setting. Stanford set up what they called a “mock prison” in the basement of Stanford University’s psychology building. During the experiment there were ten prisoners and eleven guards. The prisoners were stripped of their uniqueness by being dressed in matching smocks
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The stanford prison experiment Assignment #3 Watch the video on the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment available in the Webliography (Quiet Rage http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/quiet-rage-the-stanford-prison-experiment/). In your Threaded Discussion‚ worth 20 pts‚ post your thoughts regarding the following discussion questions excerpted from Zimbardo: 1) Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research
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The Stanford Prison Experiment – Phillip Zimbardo Introduction Headed by Phillip Zimbardo‚ the Stanford Prison Experiment was designed with the aim of investigating how readily people would behave and react to the roles given to them within a simulated prison. The experiment showed that the social expectations that people have of specific social situations can direct and strongly influence behaviour. The concepts evident in the Stanford Prison Experiment include social influence‚ and within that
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research experiment to study how people conformed to the roles they are given. The experiment was set up in the basement of Stanford Psychology building. Zimbardo’s goal was‚ “... to understand more about the process by which people called “prisoners” lose their liberty‚ civil rights‚ independence‚ and privacy‚ while those called “guards” gain social power by accepting the responsibility for controlling and managing the lives of their dependent charges” (Zimbardo par. 11). Although the experiment was
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issues today. The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ conducted over 40 years ago‚ brought these ethical issues into the limelight and remains one of the most controversial studies in the history of studying human behavior. This paper aims to define ethics‚ describe risk/benefit ratio‚ provide a brief background on the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ and evaluate the impact it has had on psychological research. The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment probably tops a lot of lists when
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Table of Contents Description of the experiment‚ and information about Zimbardo 2 Method 2 Incidents that took place during the procedure 3 The end of the experiment 6 The conclusion and the criticism of the experiment 6 The Conclusion 6 The Criticism 7 References 8 Description of the experiment‚ and information about Zimbardo The Stanford prison experiment was an experiment conducted by a group of researchers and led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. Zimbardo was born
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