Thought experiment

make sure you discuss 2 threats to internal validity and 1 threat to external validity] (25 points) Pros and cons to research strategy and design: Conducting a field experiment is beneficial because it would allow for experimenters to see how subjects respond to the experiment in a natural context. Although utilizing a lab experiment instead may have allowed for better control in order to better to determine causation. Using a static group comparison can be beneficial in regards to determining…

The Stanford prison experiment was an experiment held between August 14th and went all the way up until August 20th. In this experiment, a psychology professor named Philip Zimbardo attempts to form a model prison where he would select participants to either be guards or prisoners. The participants were interviewed, and the ones chosen were randomly assigned their roles of being either prisoners, or guards. The model prison was created in the basement of Stanford University, and it was meant to…

least preferred but immediate reward in order to receive a later but larger reward (Mischel, Ebbesen, & Zeiss, 1972). Mischel, Ebbesen, and Zeiss (1972) held a series of experiments at Stanford University to of study the role of attentional and cognitive mechanisms in delay of gratification (Mischel et al., 1972). The experiment investigated the effects of attention to the goal objects and was measure by the amount of time that the participants waited. To investigate the role of attention and…

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 different role of authority and obedience in a simulated prison he created, this was also true in the film “Stanford prison Experiment,” bother film and research were very similar, but the film not only show how the groups conform to their roles but also the warden, he became so hungry in finding answer to his questions that he would stop at nothing. Thus, his experiment ended rather quickly. In the research of the simulated prisons, they randomly assigned male students that volunteered to…

REVIEW The Stanford Prison Experiment was intended to show the pitfalls of the judicial system regarding the treatment of prisoners and the lasting effect going to prison has on a person. They believed that when a person is sent to prison, they should be rehabilitated and then sent back out. Instead it seems that being sent to prison is not enough; it just makes the prisoner angry with the system of authority that put them there. According to the following information it seems that they were…

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…

myself being attached to my parents. I think this kind of attachment began when I was lost in a mall for three hours and couldn’t find my parents. This incident triggered an instant fear when I was young and didn’t know where my parents were. I always thought I would have to go through the same stress I went through when I lost them if I did get lost again. The journalist Paul Tough talks about an opposite problem that made me remembered my own issue in his book How Children succeed. He talks…

part in his experiment. You figure that you could use the extra cash and figure that it’s a good way to help out. You and 20 other students are accepted to participate, and you are split into two groups, prisoners and guards. The only instructions given were “...do whatever they thought was necessary to maintain law and order in the prison and to command the respect of the prisoners. No physical violence [is] permitted.” So far this experiment appears to be a fairly innocent experiment, but you…

In 1971, an experiment took place in Stanford, California. It was named the Stanford Prison Experiment, lasting what was meant to be two weeks, but due to the brutality of the trial, lasted a mere 6 days. Its purpose was to conduct a study on humanity and show just how evil a human can get when given a position of power. To summarize the experiment, a random 18 men were chosen, all innocent, good people who’d never committed a crime. They were divided into two groups erratically: 9 being…