Stanford Prison Experiment
Domenica Urquidi
Psychology
Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Expirement was started in 1971 by Philip Zimbardo. This experiment is very well known in the history of psychology due to it's crazy results. The experiment was made to see the reaction of participants who were placed as situational variables. The variables were guards and prisoners. The research experiment took place in the basement of Stanford University. Chosen participants were from a crowd of about seventy undergraduate Stanford students, only twenty-four of them were chosen though. They made sure that the participants had no criminal background, or psychological issues, and definately no medical conditions.Participants were promised fifteen dollars a day for a two-week time period.The video showed that many students did it "for fun" and as a job since they were getting paid for it. Although it was a fourteen day …show more content…
Especially, when the prisoners would "misbehave". The prisoners lost all slef rights and felt depressed and helpless. I mean i would too being trerated so horribly. The guards on the other hand became very agresive and abusive. The power of role playing got in their head and took over. Common jail procedures like striping the prisoners down and checking them were even done. The prisoners were very much humiliated and abused in many ways. Probably more than we know of. They were put through psychological tortue in a way. In the video we watched in class, it showed that a student couldnt handle it anymore and asked to leave. He tried to stay and couldnt do it at the end. The video also showed how the prisoner told the others that they could not leave which made them all panic even more. It made them feel even more helpless, just like an actual prisoner they could not leave. Some guards tried to resist and keep in mind that it was all just a simple
Domenica Urquidi
Psychology
Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Expirement was started in 1971 by Philip Zimbardo. This experiment is very well known in the history of psychology due to it's crazy results. The experiment was made to see the reaction of participants who were placed as situational variables. The variables were guards and prisoners. The research experiment took place in the basement of Stanford University. Chosen participants were from a crowd of about seventy undergraduate Stanford students, only twenty-four of them were chosen though. They made sure that the participants had no criminal background, or psychological issues, and definately no medical conditions.Participants were promised fifteen dollars a day for a two-week time period.The video showed that many students did it "for fun" and as a job since they were getting paid for it. Although it was a fourteen day …show more content…
Especially, when the prisoners would "misbehave". The prisoners lost all slef rights and felt depressed and helpless. I mean i would too being trerated so horribly. The guards on the other hand became very agresive and abusive. The power of role playing got in their head and took over. Common jail procedures like striping the prisoners down and checking them were even done. The prisoners were very much humiliated and abused in many ways. Probably more than we know of. They were put through psychological tortue in a way. In the video we watched in class, it showed that a student couldnt handle it anymore and asked to leave. He tried to stay and couldnt do it at the end. The video also showed how the prisoner told the others that they could not leave which made them all panic even more. It made them feel even more helpless, just like an actual prisoner they could not leave. Some guards tried to resist and keep in mind that it was all just a simple