Philip Sidney

In the Stanford Prison Experiment, psychologist Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo acquired a group of volunteers to participate in a prison simulation. This group of college-age boys would go on to become prisoners and guards for two weeks with a payment of $15 a day. However, the experiment quickly became out of control. The prisoners started to break down rapidly due to their lack of sense of time and sudden loss of freedom. Initially, they lashed out at the guards saying how the guards had no real…

Limper Mr. Palmer Honors 11 Book Report Quarter 4 2015 March 28 Randle McMurphy is the protagonist in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He sees himself as the person who can save the rest of the men from the horrors of the mental institution in which they are stuck. McMurphy is a significant character because he acts as a leader among the men in the mental institution. As the novel progresses, he begins to rebel more and more against Nurse Ratched, and the way she rules the institution. When all…

What was it? Fascinated by Milgram study on how far he could push people to cause harm when being coached, Philip Zimbardo set out to see if prison brutality was caused by the prison environment or by the sadistic personality of prison guards. Zimbardo advertised in the newspaper looking volunteers to participate in an experiment observing the psychological effect of prison life. The experiment was planned to last two weeks with each candidate being paid 15 dollars a day. Before being…

The Stanford Experiment was conducted on August 16 of 1971 through August 20 of 1971. The experiment was led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University. The experiment was then funded due to a grant from the United States Office of Naval Research; which was of interest for the United States Navy conductors and members, as well as the United States Marine Corps. The military funded the experiment to help determine the cause of conflict occurring between military guards and prisoners.…

An experiment to test how far a person is willing to go in the name of obedience was conducted at Yale University. People are usually obedient to people with power or above them, therefore, in this experiment an administrator would tell the test subjects to shock the victim, who was obviously, an actor/someone in on the experiment. In this article the author, Stanley Milgram elaborates and describes the experiment. Like any other article out there, there are weakness along with strengths. The…

Zimbardo’s experiment solicited young men to spend two weeks in a simulated prison experience. The men who were responded were divided into prison guards and prisoners. The prisoners were treated as such, they were arrested, fingerprinted and sent to the simulated jail. According to the experiment with in a few days upon video observations the men began to crack under the pressure of the harsh treatments, such as cleaning the toilets with their bare hands. The experiment was ended abruptly due…

In the preface of Philip Zimbardo’s non-fiction book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, he uncovers various reasonings on what influenced him into conducting the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE). Part of his inspiration for writing this book was heavily based on the Abu Ghraib Prison Trial where he was the expert witness to one of the prison guards, Sergeant Ivan “Chip” Douglas, who was convicted of the many tortures and murders of the prisoners that occurred at…

The Stanford Prison Experiment In 1971, a mock prison was built in the basement of the psychology building of Stanford University. About twenty-four male students were randomly picked to play the role of either a prisoner or a guard for two weeks. Prisoners were treated like every other criminal, being arrested at their own homes, without warning, and being taken away. When the prisoners arrived at the prison they were stripped naked, lost all their personal possessions, were removed from the…

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…