Leland Stanford

A few good men Comparative Analysis Obedience to authority is something that is drilled into almost every child in almost every culture. We've been taught to always obey your elders, and always listen to the directions given. All throughout school you’ve been made to not question the system or what the teachers tell you. This contributes to later on in the life of military personnel, who are made into soldiers with blinding loyalty. But is it really loyalty, or is it obedience to authority in…

How willing are humans to fill a role they are given? This is the question that the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philp Zimbardo, professor of psychology, answers, even if it may not have been the original goal of the experiment. When people are pushed to the extremes, by internal or external factors, they are willing to do nearly anything. Zimbardo says that we “create, populate, and perpetuate” “prisons of the mind.” I agree with his statement, as many of the problems we have in a…

Conformity is the “correspondence in form, nature, or character; agreement, congruity, or accordance” (“Conformity”). Asch and his team wanted to see how far a person could go without complying with the push of conformity. Asch pulled in test subjects and presented each with three card with different lengths of line. He then asked which line was correct. This happened multiple times, and on the last occurrence, all the other “subjects” - who were actually “confederates of the experiment” (Asch…

Institutions there are two qualities found; One is confined 24 hours/ 7 days a week, with no outside contact, the other quality is that one is under total authority and control of those in power. One instance where these two qualities took place was the “Stanford Prison” Study. Zimbardo advertised that he needed students to play…

Animal experimentation has been and still is our main source of scientific research for humans. We have followed this tradition of experimenting on animals for decades, and it has been very useful to us, but at the same time it is cruel and is not 100% accurate. Animal experimentation is way to flawed and risky to put all our trust into it, and with all the dangers and risks that come with experimenting on animals we need to put a stop to it, and find some other way to get the research that…

Nathan Cuevas English 1301 Mrs. Cuevas April 7, 2016 Research paper Have you ever thought about what doctors do to you while they are operating on your or just simply giving you a vaccine shot? It may surprise you that through out history and even today doctors have experimented on their human patients without there consent. By doing this, it makes there medical experiment unethical. Some people think that Medical experiments are un ethical and necessary, but in fact human medical…

their environment and act accordingly. The group environment affects the fundamental ways of their thinking. They say unimaginable things and do unthinkable things. Some are good, some are bad, and some are purely evil. The Milgram Experiment and Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo) shows the dark side of human nature and demonstrates that under the social pressure, even a truly rational person can ignore his moral conviction and act evil. Milgram theorized that people obey to cruel orders…

In 1971, a study took place. Now it’s known as The Stanford Prison Experiment. The general purpose of this experiment was to see developmental relations and characteristics between guards and prisoners in the prison system. The author aimed to find out what fueled rage in inmates and what makes them lash out in aggression. Why there are riots, murders, rape and theft. 22 subjects that participated in the experiment were picked out of 75 people who answered a newspaper ad asking for male…

Humans sometimes experience difficulty differentiating between real memories of events and memories of events that seem real, but never actually occurred. The illusory memory effects observed from work by others in the past as well as this article could possibly be significant to the recovery of memories of childhood sexual abuse. The data in this paper connects the effect’s strength, the remembrance abilities allocated to real events and imaginary events, the extent to which the subjects accept…

This particular model unit focuses on two key experiments, Stanley Milgram’s experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment, which have greatly impacted the way in which sociologists and psychologists research and analyze social control and deviance. The NCSS theme that corresponds with this unit is “IV. Individuals Development and Identity”. For this…