The Experiment

The highly unethical nature of this experiment is quite apparent, in the film and in the actual experiment itself. Starting with deception, it was evident since the start of the study when the participants were made unaware of their random assignment and led to believe that their roles were based on their nature. Demand characteristics were briefly seen when the experimenter told the guards that they expected them to show their authority and discipline the prisoners Furthermore, there is…

Professor Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford Prison Experiment was an experimental study using students to evaluate how an individual’s behavior can be shaped when put in certain situations involving power. The students chosen to participate were assigned randomly as either a prison guard or a prisoner and were placed in the basement of the Psychology Department at Stanford University to conduct the experiment. Despite being planned to run for two weeks, the experiment only lasted six days due to it…

Purpose/Rationale The purpose of this experiment is to find out what liquid out of coke, coffee or tea will stain an eggshell the most. I chose to so this project because I think that it can help people who have problems with their teeth not being clean. They may find out why their teeth are staining so bad. Coke, coffee and tea can do a bunch of damage. But in this experiment I wanted to know the exact percentage of staining that they may cause. I think that learning how much a everyday drink…

There are a few different opinions on whether animals should be used in experiments for human benefit or not. A lot of factors can contribute to both sides of the argument for animal testing. Animals are experimented on mainly to develop new medicines for humans and to test products to determine if they are safe enough for humans to use. Studies have been conducted to find cures for cancer, and animals have been used to further the research. Many experimenters know that animals can be harmed in…

Ethical Issues within the Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford prison experiment was a controversial experiment in human behavior conducted at Stanford University in 1971. The experiment took twenty-four voluntary students and placed them in the role of either prison guard or prisoner, in a make shift prison that was constructed in the basement of the psychology department of Stanford University. The experiment was to last fourteen days but was terminated after six days due to the negative…

Experiment Testing Organic Molecules in Commercially Available Protein Supplements Introduction In this experiment, my lab partners and I examined three different samples of protein supplements in order to test for organic molecules such as sugar, starch, and protein. The average consumer that purchases protein supplements, such as those we examined in lab, use them for physical fitness. This means that they would be searching for the protein powder with the most amount of protein and least…

Zimbardo Assignment The Stanford Prison Experiment was a psychological study of human replication to captivity, in cognation to the authentic circumstances of prison life. It was conducted in August 1971 by Phillip Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University. Subjects were desultorily assigned, by the flip of a coin, to play the role as prisoner or the role as a prison sentinel. Those assigned to play the role as the sentinel were given night sticks, a whistle, and mirrored sunglasses to…

terrifyingly normal and stated that he was just following orders. Milgram (1963) conducted multiple experiments to investigate how strong an authorities influence was over other’s sense of morals and how far they were able to make them obey. One of the biggest limitations that Milgram’s experiment faced was his ecological validity, the ability to generalize his findings to the real-world. His first experiment could have been considered ethnocentrically bias, favoring only your own…

The Milgram experiments sound a little messed up when you first hear about them but then you go into all the details and you really start to think about what people would do for money. The experimenters took a person that agreed to be part of the experiment and a person that was in it. They sat them in a room together and they were both told that one of them would be the teacher and the other the learner, but of course the person that was in on the whole thing was the learner and the other…

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…