What can we learn from the Stanford Prison Experiment? There is no doubt that the study conducted by Dr Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University was extremely valuable to not only the Psychology profession‚ but also to all social science fields. He tested and selected participates to recreate a prison environment separating one group into two‚ guards and prisoners‚ and the results were truly ground breaking. A lot of significant information was gathered and the results help us understand
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Zimbardo conducted a study‚ known as the Stanford Prison Study‚ which confirmed his theoretical development of deindividuation. Zimbardo postulates that the individual in a group is less likely to follow normal rules of behavior‚ partly because they become anonymous and the sense of responsibility fades. In addition‚ the individual’s self-awareness is relaxed. Some examples from the prison study that we can see is that the anonymity is accentuated in situations in which the members of the group wear
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Christopher Campbell 10/02/2012 Psych 320 Was the Stanford Prison Study Ethical? The test aimed to show that the inherent personality traits of prisoners and guards are the chief cause of abusive behavior in prison. Zimbardo and his selected team with funding from the US Office of Naval Research selected twenty-four predominately “healthy” white middle class males for the experiment. The subjects were selected through extensive background and psychological tests excluding those with criminal
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in real life situation too. To test out if human being would lose their moral and social values when they lost their individuality‚ Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment in 1971 to see how readily people would conform to the roles of guard and prisoner in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life (Zimbardo - Stanford Prison Experiment‚ 2008). This experiment was called The Stanford Prison Experiment and it was conducted at Stanford University. While the real life situation that was being
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Questions about the Stanford Prison Experiment July 15‚ 2008 The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) by Phil Zimbardo has been for me an example of the astonishing things that we humans are capable of. I guess as an example of human gullibility‚ I had not been skeptical about the experiment‚ which lacks quite a few scientific markers (aside from its ethical problems). During a talk by Barbara Oakley‚ she was asked to comment about the SPE because it showed the influence the situation and roles could have
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Standard Prison Experiment This experiment shows how individual personalities could be engulf when they were given power and authority. Also‚ the individual were acting in a way that they thought was required‚ rather than using their own judgement. The experiment showed how subjects reacted to the specific needs of the situations‚ rather than considering their moral beliefs and thoughts. Based on my opinion one of the sign about how serious the subjects playing their role to continue this
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Zimbardo?s‚ Stanford experiment ended quickly because of ethical issues from the start of the experiment. The research improperly analyzed‚ allowed the experiment to become a blurred research. The roll playing
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Abstract Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE)‚ investigating the effects of roles in a simulated prison environment‚ significantly impacted the psychological understanding of role conformity. However‚ recent evidence suggests results from this seminal experiment are less reflecting of role conformity‚ with findings alternatively attributed to demand characteristics. This critique is constructed as further examination of SPE revealed participants were able to predetermine the experimental hypothesis
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HOFLING HOSPITAL EXPERIMENT Hofling 1966 He wanted to see if nurses would follow orders given by an authority figure (Doctor) when the orders are given over the phone and would be breaking regulations. To study obedience in a real life setting. -The experiment involved public and private hospital wards. In Hospital ONE; 21 student nurses and 12 graduate nurses were asked to complete a questionnaire asking them what they would do if confronted by the experimental situation. This was to be the control
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The milgram experiment. The three people involved were: the one running the experiment‚ the subject of the experiment a volunteer‚ and a person pretending to be a volunteer. These three persons fill three distinct roles: the Experimenter an authoritative role‚ the Teacher a role intended to obey the orders of the Experimenter‚ and the Learner the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher. The subject and the actor both drew slips of paper to determine their roles‚ but unknown to the subject‚ both slips
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