Thought experiment

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…

participants rating their enjoyment and explaining each of the five flavors they tasted in order to document the sequence in which they had the pieces of chocolate. They were also asked what chocolate they liked more and their general enjoyment of the experiment. At the end, to test any mistrust from the participants these were asked their experimenter’s words before giving them the last piece of chocolate, for this the study used a questionnaire that consisted of four different…

suppose to be friends that work with him. Then, Charlie gets to be apart of an experiment. He then gets super smart and his friends stop talking to him and he thinks more of himself. But he then becomes not very smart and the story doesn’t end very happy. I think that Charlie should have got the operation. A reason I believe this is because all Charlie ever wants to do is help and he helped the scientists know if the experiment worked or not. He found out that his friends were making fun of him…

many injustices of the medical field are owed reparations. To the hundreds of thousands of people that suffered at the hands of those who are supposed to help them lose all sense of trust that they once gave to doctors and scientist. Unethical experiments only lead to the mistrust of those that are affected and…

In the study about the new therapy technique for depression, the confounds that might have impacted the findings were maturation and mortality effect. The mortality effect refers to any loss of participants from your sample. The health magazine state that out of the 50 subjects, only 29 were left after nine months. It would be difficult to determine the impact of the technique on the subjects, because the people that dropped out may have represented an important subgroup in a larger population…

lesson plan will deliver instructions; they may not stray away from the script. The script and lesson plan will have all the material and information laid out; therefore, there is little confusion. Conclusion I believe that the results from the experiment will show the positive effects of using a bullying prevent program. If the results are positive, they will reduce the amount of victimization children feel and behavioral risk that cause bullying. If the results are negative then I would…

In 1963 soon after the Holocaust, Stanley Milgram executed an experiment to document and test human behaviors. The test was to see how far and individual would go to inflict pain on another human when in the company of an authority figure. 40 subjects applied through a newspaper ad and were paired together as a teacher and student. The student however, was an actor stating he had a heart condition and was concerned the test would affect it. Before the test started he was replaced with a…

Stanford Prison Experiment A psychological experiment testing human behavior when the variables of the situation are manipulated. In 1971, a psychologist, Philip Zimbardo conducted this experiment in the basement of the Stanford Psychology Department located at the college. When put in a situation where people do not question their morals, the evil in them will become more apparent. To find the psychological effects when taking on the roles as either a prisoner or prison guard. Many people…

Compliance portrays a true story that draws a eerie connection to the Stanley Milgram’s experiment and the Stanford Prison experiment. It involves seemingly normal people committing horrible acts under social influence. However, the real setting of the story in the film versus the laboratorial conditions of the experiments entail the debate over the extent of their connection. While the results of experiments certainly provide insights into the possible social psychological mechanisms that drive…

famous studies referring on how people obey or disobey to certain authoritarian instructions. The experiment basically consisted on put in one of the participants to an unclear situation in which they would be required to select either to obey or disobey the instructions given by an authoritative person. The role of the participants were to indicated a set of words to the learner(…