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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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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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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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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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. Outline
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In 1973‚ Zimbardo carried out an experiment to investigate how readily people would conform to new roles by observing how quickly people would adopt the roles of a guard or prisoner in a simulated prison. Zimbardo took healthy male volunteers and pain them $15 per day to take part in the two-week simulation study of prison life. Volunteers were randomly chosen to be either guards or prisoners. Local police helped “arrest” 9 prisoners at their homes without warning; they were then taken and blindfolded
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humans obey authority. Milgram studied obedient on authority. Zimbardo studied why guards and prisoner play that role in prison. The Milgram and Zimbardo experiments showed how humans are so obedient that we are capable of hurting innocent people if ordered to do so. The study of obedience‚ conducted by Milgram‚ was to test how the subject would obey when ordered by the experimenter to adminater a shock to another human. Two experiments were conducted. The first used Yale undergraduates as subjects
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The Standford Prison Experiment was conducted in 1971 at Standford University by American psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo. The experiment supposedly intended to “measure the effect of role-playing‚ labelling‚ and social expectations on behaviour‚” by having twenty-four college students recreate daily life in a correctional facility. All volunteers are subject to a personality test. Anyone with mental disorders or illnesses‚ disabilities‚ or violent personality traits is disqualified. The remaining
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Prison Experiment Support Deprivation Theory Nick McCoy University of Iowa Philip G. Zimbardo in a pursuit to analyze the results of placing society accepted “good” people in an evil place constructed an experiment which represented a simulation of prison life. Ordinary middle class males were placed in a situation to monitor activities and behavior these males displayed when subject to the harsh environments of a prison. The results of the experiment were much more detrimental than expected
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Investigation: The Stanford prison experiment was originally intended to run for a fortnight. However it lasted only 6 days and was ended earlier than initially planned due to the terrible living conditions and psychological problems that developed as the ‘inmates’ and ‘guards’ interacted.. The experiment was run by Philip Zimbardo‚ Craig Haney‚ David Jaffe‚ and W. Curtis Banks. The test subjects were young male college students that were chosen from 75 volunteers. The volunteers had replied to
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