Stanford prison experiment

of this experiment was to perform a crash test and analyze the damage done to a dummy, when wearing and not wearing a seatbelt. Introduction Controls and Variables While performing this experiment there was one clear independent variable, which was the seat belt, as it was the only thing that changed during the experiment. As to have a fair test, that dummy had to be tested with both the seat belt on and off. The dependent and independent variables are the same thing in the experiment as,…

From January to May of 1939, one of the most controversial psychological experiments to date was conducted on twenty-two orphans (Reynolds, 2003). The aim of the study was to test the effect of positive and negative speech therapy (Reynolds, 2003). It has since been notoriously nicknamed The Monster Study. The children were divided into four groups, two groups of five stutterers and two groups with six fluent speakers (Ambrose & Yairi, 2002.). Throughout January and May, each student had…

single authority, such as a prison, the military, a mental hospital, or a convent” (Schaefer 94). Typically a Total Institution is also not allowed to socialize with the rest of society. In all Total 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…

The Stanford prison experiment was done to see if it is the people that occupy it and run the prison that make it inhuman. Or if it is the conditions that the people are kept in that make it brutal for the inmates and the people that work there. When it comes to testing these types of experiments. Where the subjects are exposed to an environment that can be harmful to them. There is a set of ethical guidelines that must be followed. To make sure that the subjects will not be taken advantage of.…

John F. Kennedy once said, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” Once one suppresses freedom, the person’s true identity begins to disappear. Conformity causes lack of individuality, as shown through cults; the Stanford Prison Experiment; and normative social influence, informational social influence, and the social impact theory. The word “cult” refers to a group of people with religious tendencies, beliefs, or just practices in general that some may describe as…

The Milgram experiment was done by Stanley Milgram to see how people would respond when an authority figure told them to do something that went against their conscience. The subject was told to give shocks, which went up in voltage, to a learner who was in on the experiment, unknowingly to the subject. Psychologists estimated that 1% of the subjects 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…

Philip George Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University who investigated how readily people would comply to the roles of guard and prisoner in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life. Zimbardo was interested in finding out if guards were being reported for their brutality because of the dispositional hypothesis stating that the guards’ personalities and aggression is conflicting with disobeying prisoners or the situational explanation stating that…

Sections 1 & 2: List of ethical violations associated with the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and classifying which type of ethical violations occurred 1.) The USPHS tricked the men into participating by saying they were going to provide them with free treatment, but instead withheld treatment. Researchers went to great lengths to stop the men from being treated by other, non-government physicians, because they didn’t want to compromise the study. They not only approached their subjects about…

Social influences can have many different effects on people depending on what situation they are in as found in Stanley Milgram’s Obedience study. In Phillip Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment, he used the power that police and prison guards gain while in control to show that having a figure giving directions will drastically change the way that someone will act in accordance or defiance with the authority figure’s orders and how much people will fall into their roles in their situation. At Abu Ghraib…

that intrinsic traits within one’s personality are responsible for cruel and offensive behaviour displayed in prison environments. Zimbardo conducted a study whereby he aimed to investigate whether individuals would conform to roles of either a guard, or prisoner, in a simulated prison setting. The participants were recruited by a newspaper advertisement in the Palo Alto Times and The Stanford Daily offering…