is not a humane experiment. All of the people in this study could have potential lasting emotional and/or physical scars that may never heal. For instance‚ when Prisoner 8612 “began suffering from an acute emotional disturbance‚ disorganized thinking‚ uncontrollable crying‚ and rage” after only 36 hours into the experiment. How can the experimenter safeguard this person from these same effects when the experiment is over? Another reason I would not have conducted this experiment is how the prisoners’
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The Stanford Prison Experiment a good passage based on 22 people who participated in a selected from an initial pool of 75 people‚ who answered to a newspaper advertise asking for males to participate in a psychological study of ’prison life’ in return for payment of $15 per day.Each person completed an questionnaire on his family background‚ physical and mental health history‚ prior experiences and attitudinal tendencies with respect to sources of psychopathology including their involvements in
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Abstract This experiment involves a social dilemma‚ where participants had to choose whether or not to betray their partner. In 1950‚ while researching game theory‚ Flood & Dresher devised a model‚ that Albert Tucker later interpreted and named the Prisoners Dilemma. The participant receives a high reward of they betray their partner and their partner does not betray them‚ a medium reward if they and their partner both don’t betray each other‚ and no reward if they both betray each other. In Tuckers
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across the world. When participants are being experimented on‚ most of the time‚ there was no consent given to the experimenter. In these cases‚ the experiment should not be performed. In most cases the subjects‚ have little understanding of the experiment and should be able to stop being tested on if they please. Although using prisoners for experiments‚ is not a terrible thing to do‚ because most of the prisoners being tested on have no right to life‚ meaning they are on death row. If the prisoners
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of human nature is each individual having their own identity‚ opinion and reaction towards things. The Stanford prison experiment was performed so that the people running it could try to comprehend what human nature is. The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether people are more influenced by an “evil” environment than their own internal desire to do “good”. This experiment showed us that good people can snap under pressure and react to things differently than they normally would. Resulting
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Social structural e. informal rules and techniques 11. What did the Stanford Prison Experiment study? How did the student’s act during the study? 12 guards 12 prisoners 24 students. Experiment suggest the substantial problem with group behavior. 12. Crank and Caldero suggested that the brutal treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the behavior of the students in the Stanford Prison experiment resulted from what? Group behavior‚
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Having power can corrupt a lot of people. When people get power they feel like they can do whatever they want. They feel like they don’t have to listen to nobody and basically there the boss.The person just becomes really controlling.But that’s not always the case some people when they get power they change for the better . But most of the time they become controlling. In the article ¨The man in the well¨ there was a bit of controlling. The kids had a lot more power than the man stuck in the well
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it a little farter each time. They wanted to see how much they could get away with. This can be related to social experiments such as the “Stanford Prison Experiment”. This experiment was conducted by the University of Stanford in 1973. To explore the relationship between guars and prisoners. By converting a basement of the Stanford University Psychology Building into a mock prison and randomly assigning the roles of Guards and prisoners to the contributors. There where 11 guards and 10 prisoners
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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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subjects that were experimented on were prisoners. The US conducted many experiments on these people in which 696 subjects were male prisoners and female patients in the National Mental Health Hospital of Guatemala. Years later‚ President Barack Obama called Álvaro Colom‚ Guatemala’s president‚ to personally apologize for the U.S. government research activities‚ but that is just one of the many horrific prisoner experiments that have occurred throughout history.
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