Philip Larkin

This essay will examine two psychological research studies which were carried out in the past with particular focus on the ethical principles of each study with relation to the ethical principles administered by the British Psychological Society’s code of ethics and conduct. These studies will be briefly outlined before an analysis of each is made with regards to some practices which would not be considered ethical today. The first study was conducted by Milgram (1963) in order to explain why…

You just got accepted to your dream college and have enthusiastically spent all week packing all your articles, and now you are driving hours on end to your new residence, a college dorm in Stanford, California, on the Stanford University campus. You are so thrilled, but also nervous, to start a new adventure here in California. It’s your first day and you are eager to go to your classes and become that college student you’ve pictured for what seems like forever. While walking through the campus…

When you hear about a celebrity going to jail, one would have an active imagination as to what kind of issue this brought on. However, in the case of Nick Cannon, the actor goes to a D.C. jail where he sits down and learns with the inmates. Nick Cannon is a Howard student and he goes where Bahiyyah Muhammad, a criminologist and assistant professor at Howard University goes. He teaches "Inside Out: Crime and Justice Behind the Wall" at the D.C. jail. Once a week, for three hours, Nick Cannon…

Annotated Bibliography Acheson, Katherine. “On Authorship, Sexuality and the Psychology of Privation in Milton's ‘Paradise Lost.'" The Johns Hopkins University Press, 67.4 (2000): 905. Web. 13 Nov. 2016. Throughout literature history, sexual relationships have been a major factor that contributes to the overall theme of a story. The author of this article, Acheson, makes it clear that sexuality is obviously a prime element in the tale Paradise Lost. By incorporating sexuality into literature…

nature? Psychologists had been wondering the same thing for a long time. In fact, they just believed that these children had some hidden trait that made them barbarous by nature. In reality, it could’ve been the stress that they were put through. Philip Zimbardo is a very popular social psychologist for his groundbreaking work with the effects certain situations…

The Stanford Prison Experiment revolutionized how society views the relationship between prison guards and prisoners as well as how to conduct social experiments. The college students used by Philip Zimbardo adhered to their roles as the prison guards and gave a more authoritarian response to the students that played the role of the prisoners than Zimbardo hypothesized. These roles shaped the personalities of the prison guards as well as the prisoners. Social Structure and Personality studies…

The Zimbardo Prison Study revealed how prisoners and prison guards transitioned into predefined roles, behaving in a way that was thought to be a requirement, rather than using their own reasoning and beliefs. Zimbardo wanted to communicate how dehumanizing and disengaging them from social and moral values can affect an individual engaged in a highly stressful situation and what happens when identity and pride are taken away as a result of their lives being controlled. After watching the…

against human experimentation. Many human experiments are psychological, though some are physical, both usually causing damage to the body and/or state of mind. My first point being the Stanford Prisoner experiment that took place in 1973. Psychiatrist, Philip Zimbardo chose 24 out of 75 undergraduates and randomly assigned them roles as guards and prisoners in a mock prison on campus. They adapted to their roles within a manner of days,1/3 of the 'guards' began to show agressive and sadistic…

would go to the end of the board; however, 65% of the subjects did. This proved that people are capable of doing anything, as long as it comes from a legitimate authority no matter how inhumane it could be. The Stanford prison experiment was done by Philip Zimbardo to see how good people respond when they are placed in a bad environment. He made a prison in the basement of the psychology department…

The Stanford experiment separated two groups of people being the prisoners and the correctional officers. The objective of this experiment was to see the impact a position of power would have to a person. This would not only show how human nature changes when being put in this position but also explain why they act the way they do. Ordinary people are put into these positions and are able to do extraordinary activities due to their social psychological influences. This related to “The Lottery”…