The Stanford prison experiment was done to see if it is the people that occupy it and run the prison that make it inhuman. Or if it is the conditions that the people are kept in that make it brutal for the inmates and the people that work there. When it comes to testing these types of experiments. Where the subjects are exposed to an environment that can be harmful to them. There is a set of ethical guidelines that must be followed. To make sure that the subjects will not be taken advantage of. These guidelines where given out and developed by The Belmont Report. When it comes to the Stanford prison experiment and The Belmont Report standers. The Belmont Report does apply to some parts of the experiment and the subjects that participated in
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The psychologists used all of the appropriate terms to explain what they were planning to do and how they were going to go about testing their hypothesis. Along with that there was also relevant guidelines to choosing who may and may not take apart in the experiment. The participants had to be male college students that where heathy both psychologically and physically. They also had to be volunteers that were there on their own free will and they also had to have given their consent on signed contracts. The conductors of this experiment also showed a lot of beneficence towards the subjects that were participating in it. As soon as the person showed signs of depression or anxiety in the experimental prison. The psychologists conducting it will pull them out to prevent them from any harm. It got so bad with the subjects showing these signs that Haney and his associates called off the experiment before they even reached that halfway point of it. The way they determined this was by giving out questionnaires throughout the experiment to see how subjects’ emotions were being effected. Then once the Stanford prison experiment was done the conductors of it. Continued to follow with subjects for about a year. They did that by providing group therapy for them. They wanted to make sure that the emotions the subjects suffered was only
The psychologists used all of the appropriate terms to explain what they were planning to do and how they were going to go about testing their hypothesis. Along with that there was also relevant guidelines to choosing who may and may not take apart in the experiment. The participants had to be male college students that where heathy both psychologically and physically. They also had to be volunteers that were there on their own free will and they also had to have given their consent on signed contracts. The conductors of this experiment also showed a lot of beneficence towards the subjects that were participating in it. As soon as the person showed signs of depression or anxiety in the experimental prison. The psychologists conducting it will pull them out to prevent them from any harm. It got so bad with the subjects showing these signs that Haney and his associates called off the experiment before they even reached that halfway point of it. The way they determined this was by giving out questionnaires throughout the experiment to see how subjects’ emotions were being effected. Then once the Stanford prison experiment was done the conductors of it. Continued to follow with subjects for about a year. They did that by providing group therapy for them. They wanted to make sure that the emotions the subjects suffered was only