Philip Sidney

An Unexpected Change The premise of the Stanford Prison was to determine the relationships between guards and prisoners. These conditions were situational and the researchers wanted to study the variables on human behaviors in a prison environment. As many have concluded, the experiment did not go as anticipated, and many questions have arisen as to what went wrong and if the experiment itself was ethical. This purpose of this paper is to understand the true intent of the experiment, examine…

Milgram’s Experiment How far are people being able to go under pressure orders of an authority? Stanley Milgram had an interest in understanding why Germans had committed war crimes during World War 2. He planned his experiment in the early 1960’s where he had a confederate and the participant, influence of punishment on memory and experimenter orders teacher to obey. Milgram goals was to determine whether the reason many of the accused German gave to clarify their action where they believed…

Imagine yourself on a crisp, foggy morning with thick metal chains around your wrists and ankles slowly dragging aboard the island ferry with 136 other horrifying inmates. You are stuck in a cramped space for the next fifteen minutes, being shoved and pounded on making it even more difficult to keep your balance as the ship sways. Then you catch a quick glance through all the fog at what is soon to be your new home. All of a sudden the ferry is still. The guards open the door. One of them gapes…

Stanley Milgram is a social psychologist from Yale University that has made an experiment that shocks the person hooked up to the machine. Milgram “told his subjects they were part of the learning and memory experiment.” He said that “we want to find out like punishment bomber situation.” In this experiment there is one person who has to keep on giving the other person powerful shocks. In this experiment there is a teacher and a learner. “The learner is an accomplice who’s been instructed to…

In Los Angeles, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a new case for General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) in Los Angeles, a wealthy old gentleman seeking to stop a man named Arthur Gwynne Geiger (Theodore Von Eltz), who is blackmailing his youngest daughter, Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers). General Sternwood wants Marlowe to stop Geiger from extorting his family for money. But Marlowe has inadvertently stepped into several other mysteries involving he Sternwood family…

Psychology has been around since the beginning of humanity. Even before the term “Psychology” was coined people would try various things to try to fix people who were different than them. Often, these individuals would have mental disabilities such as ADHD (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). As more people became involved with psychology and the number of experiments increased there became growing a need for a central organization that could set the standard for the field and what can…

How does having power corrupt people? Having power can corrupt people in manys, such as what happen in The Well by Ira Sher and what happen in The Stanford Prison Experiment by Saul McLeod. In the article The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo had constructed an experiment to confirm what might cause a guard to have brutality against a prisoner and that’s just what Zimbardo had done. In the article it says, “Within hours of beginning the experiment some guards began to harass…

I was left speechless and in shock after watching the Human Behavior Experiment film. The thing that shocked me the most about this documentary is how people’s reactions change once they are with a group of people, even though they don’t think things are right they don’t stand up and say something they just conform because everyone else is. Like in the Kitty Genovese case people were just being bystanders when it came to her being chased and killed no one did anything till it was too late, or…

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…

Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is much more than the average detective fiction of it’s time. Chandler uses the novel for a social commentary on the depravity that surrounds money using the protagonist Philip Marlowe, a callous, but still likeable, private investigator who’s moral compass is unwavering, to emphasize his points by contrasting him with the variety of other characters including the wealthy and the police. Throughout the novel we see Marlowe constantly and consistently making…