You just got accepted to your dream college and have enthusiastically spent all week packing all your articles, and now you are driving hours on end to your new residence, a college dorm in Stanford, California, on the Stanford University campus. You are so thrilled, but also nervous, to start a new adventure here in California. It’s your first day and you are eager to go to your classes and become that college student you’ve pictured for what seems like forever. While walking through the campus a newspaper on the ground catches your eye. You pick it up with curiosity and notice an ad that seemed to shout at you with the big bold letters, “MALE STUDENTS NEEDED: to participate in a psychological study of prison life. $15 per day 1-2 weeks, beginning
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How do you think prison affects the guards and prisoners? Does it have more effect on the prisoners, guards, or both equally? Second, Zimbardo had a plan for his experiment, “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” He chose to construct the environment for the study in the basement of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. Zimbardo and his colleagues built some walls and put some doors up to recreate a prison-like setting. They had to “board up each end of the corridor (“The Story”). They also put cell-like bars in the doors so it really had that prison feel. Okay, the scene is prepared, but they still need volunteers to play out the roles of the guards and prisoners. Third, he needed participants to play the roles of the prisoners and guards. This part is essential because there is no experiment if there is no people. The way they went about finding volunteers is using the newspaper as noted in the beginning. Perusing college males, they placed an ad for a part-time job that will only last one to two weeks and will get paid $15 dollars per day. About 72 people applied and they were all from the United States and Canada and they all happen to be in the Stanford. The selection process was very precise, because he needed mentally stable participants so that all the volunteers are all on the same level and equal. Next, he would assign each participant what role they will be executing in this study. What Zimbardo and his peers did was a random draw between all the partakers to see whom would be the prisoners and whom would be the guards. Roles were now assigned and it is time to
How do you think prison affects the guards and prisoners? Does it have more effect on the prisoners, guards, or both equally? Second, Zimbardo had a plan for his experiment, “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” He chose to construct the environment for the study in the basement of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. Zimbardo and his colleagues built some walls and put some doors up to recreate a prison-like setting. They had to “board up each end of the corridor (“The Story”). They also put cell-like bars in the doors so it really had that prison feel. Okay, the scene is prepared, but they still need volunteers to play out the roles of the guards and prisoners. Third, he needed participants to play the roles of the prisoners and guards. This part is essential because there is no experiment if there is no people. The way they went about finding volunteers is using the newspaper as noted in the beginning. Perusing college males, they placed an ad for a part-time job that will only last one to two weeks and will get paid $15 dollars per day. About 72 people applied and they were all from the United States and Canada and they all happen to be in the Stanford. The selection process was very precise, because he needed mentally stable participants so that all the volunteers are all on the same level and equal. Next, he would assign each participant what role they will be executing in this study. What Zimbardo and his peers did was a random draw between all the partakers to see whom would be the prisoners and whom would be the guards. Roles were now assigned and it is time to