Experiment

Most scientists conduct experiments towards a productive, humanitarian goal with the aid of volunteers. However, during the Holocaust, scientists experimented on forced subjects that usually resulted in the loss of their lives. By not acquiring permission of these subjects and causing their deaths, they participated in unethical and immoral activities. Although some prisoners of the Holocaust were not experimented on, they also experienced corrupt treatment in their everyday lives. Many immoral…

the different role of authority and obedience in a simulated prison he created, this was also true in the film “Stanford prison Experiment,” bother film and research were very similar, but the film not only show how the groups conform to their roles but also the warden, he became so hungry in finding answer to his questions that he would stop at nothing. Thus, his experiment ended rather quickly. In the research of the simulated prisons, they randomly assigned male students that volunteered to…

In 1963 soon after the Holocaust, Stanley Milgram executed an experiment to document and test human behaviors. The test was to see how far and individual would go to inflict pain on another human when in the company of an authority figure. 40 subjects applied through a newspaper ad and were paired together as a teacher and student. The student however, was an actor stating he had a heart condition and was concerned the test would affect it. Before the test started he was replaced with a…

written and conducted by Stanley Miller, an experiment was performed to see if a group of amenable participants, named subjects, were willing to provide electrical shocks to another person, the experiment tested how far down the severity of shocks the subject would administer to the victim. The question is would being in the position of control and having a feeling as if the subject cannot leave, makes shocking another person justifiable? To begin the experiment, a total of 40 male subjects…

The experiment began on August 14, 1971 and was intended to run for seven to fourteen days (Haney 4). The selection process was meant to choose the most normal, stable students out of the applicants to ensure the results of the experiment were not changed by the subjects’ predispositions. Zimbardo’s goal with the experiment was to put participants that were deemed normal and average and see how the prison environment and their roles in it changed them over time.(Haney 4) The volunteers were…

Study of Obedience” could attempt to explain. Male adults from New Haven ignored their own moral values in order to provide results to an experiment that they…

When the Milgram’s experiment is discussed most people consider the study unethical, but the real question is, is it really unethical? As was stated on simplypsychology, by Mclead “Stanley Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person.” To do so, he picked out random people and put them in a situation where an authority controls them. However, he told the participants they are a part of a study examining the effects…

The current ethical principle have been heavily influenced by very unethical experiments in the past, such as Milgram’s Conformity and Obedience Experiment and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. The current ethical guidelines are informed consent, voluntary participation, confidentiality, anonymity, right to withdraw, do no harm and debriefing (APS, n.d.). The ethical standards / regulations can vary for different types of research, for instance, if the researcher is doing clinical research…

“A Study of Prison Guards in a Stimulated Prison”, an experiment conducted in 1973 at Stanford University, by one of the most famous Psychologists to date, Philip Zimbardo. Interestingly, the Office of Naval Research sponsored the study as part of an ongoing programme tailored to generate a better understanding of the first principles of psychological processes underlying human aggression (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973). A famous experiment widely propagated in the education of social…

Prison Experiment. I think it was called Chaos Experiment; I thought it was very interesting. Chapter 4, pp 103 explained that the Sanford Prison Experiment was actually a procedure method that involved college men who volunteered to either be a guard or evil prisoners. The purpose of the experiment was to see if guards are the cause to a violent prison or if the prisoners are the cause of a violent prison. Being this is a discussion based off what we elevated, I believe the experiment was…