The Stanford Prison Experiment Essay

dispute has been whether it is wrong to obey authority. On one side of the argument, some claim that obeying authority is wrong. From this perspective, many people see Milgram’s shock experiment and Zimbardo’s prison experiment as examples of how dangerous obeying authority is. As Milgram states the subjects in the experiment were “proud of doing a good job, obeying the experimenter under difficult circumstances” (509). Basically, Milgram realized that the subjects got satisfaction from doing…

A true experiment, taking place in a natural setting to determine the causal relationship between two things, has many important factors to account for. The experiment administrator must first consider the independent and dependent variables, pre testing and post testing of subjects, and the split between experimental and control groups. These two groups must be equivalent, and the experimental group must be exposed to the treatment, or the independent variable. My true experiment to test…

The Milgram’s Obedience study was an experiment one would find to be very interesting in regards to the human mind of authority. Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist whose motives was to explore American’s culture in comparison to German’s culture in obedience to commands of harming another individual. After reading about the study and watching the short film I became very sickened by the experiment. The entire thought process of the Germans to harm an individual to the point of possibly…

In this extension experiment there were a few errors that occurred in some of the trials. This is to be expected as perfect sterile techniques are unable to be achieved in the conditions provided. This is also why it was chosen to do three trials of each antiseptic so when errors do occur they can be easily recognised as anomalies. In the Domestos trials the main error was in the second plate where no results could be found for any of the four sections. As can be seen in the photo a small…

In this section, Chen and Yang describe their experimental treatments and discuss how they measure and translate the outcomes. In the experiment, all participants are students from a top university and an average university in Beijing. Among these participants, Chen and Yang let students who have already regularly use tools to bypass censorship be benchmark to interpret the treatment effects. They randomly assign the rest students to either a control condition in which they are subject to…

Stanley Milgram, contains an experiment that demonstrates how far people will go and continue to obey authority. Milgram conducts tests using random subjects, actors, and a fake electric chair; he gives the subjects the power to increase voltage and potentially "harm" the actors (78). Milgram, surprisingly, finds out from his data that the majority of the subjects administered dangerously high voltage (85). He received a large amount of negative feedback saying his experiments were unethical and…

I have considered different perspectives on the psychological manipulation used in room 101. Some feel that winston broke and gave in too early. He was weak and could barely endure the pain. They believe if they were in his situation they could hold out longer or not even break at all. I completely disagree with this perspective. I believe Winston was average for how long he held out. If someone were to torture you with what your greatest fear is, rats in Winston's case. You would break just as…

Nalini Nadkarni’s 2010 Ted Talk, “Life Science in Prison”, places two unlikely entities together to denaturalize a distorted societal view on the prison system, and more specifically, inmates themselves. Nadkarni does so by beginning her Ted Talk metaphorically; she believes that many consider trees as unchanging entities, much like their views on prisons. Using this metaphor, Nadkarni highlights the positive dynamisms in prisons often excluded from mainstream views, which only necessitates a…

Introduction This experiment will test the likeliness of receiving a response when greeting someone while exercising targeting body language verses greeting someone without using targeting body language. Targeting body language are gestures such as waving, smiling, or pointing to alert someone that you are talking to them. The experiment is to be tested over the course of two days using the same method and welcoming for both days. Statement of The Problem Theory Most people do not greet…

questions” (Primo Levi). There are common people every day who experiment; however, experiments turn evil when they prove genocidal to races. Throughout history, there have been events which most would like to change or forget; likewise, there are events which are repeated, even though the event could be catastrophic in proportions, such as the scientific “experiments” conducted by the Nazi Germany’s Holocaust and The United States’ experiments after 1940. Though the countries are different,…