Advantages Of Working With A Group

The Stanford Prison Experiment was very strange. When one of the prisoners said “they were out of control,” I thought about an authoritarian leader- someone that controls every aspect of a person’s life. I think Zimbardo, creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the guards were being an authoritarian leader. I thought it was disturbing that some of the people that were given the guards position only said “yes” to participate in the experiment because they needed a job and thought that the Prison Experiment would be more entertaining. I think it was weird that being in this experiment changed the “prisoners” physically and mentally. In the Stanford Prison Experiment video, it mentioned the electric shock experiment that was done to people

August 14, 1971 was the first day of the experiment, filled with individuality and unknown being of what this experiment was to bring. The college students were picked up in a police car, mirandized, and after processing landed in the experimental jail. Though the experiment collected important data on the psychological break down over what happens when innocent people go to jail, the gruesome and eye opening transformation of each of the prisoners over just six days is shocking. Hopeless and dehumanized, each of the prisoners experienced psychological trauma of varying degrees. Towards the end of the experiment, they were only identifying as their prison number and it was almost as if they had forgotten

To add on to what Rachel said, groupthink can also occur if the leader is well respected or persuasive. It does have it pros and cons. If used properly the group can come to a solution with everyone contributing. It gives everyone of a sense if worth because they contributed. A con can be peer pressure as when everyone agrees on one solution. This leads mental inefficiency and decrease in moral judgement. As some patients may just go with everyone says in order to avoid conflict. If you want to avoid groupthink then you can have an outsider come in and question the views of the members or or assign the role of critical evaluator to each member of the group.

It was a single blinded experiment. The researchers influenced the experiment with the rules they created for the prisoners and guards to follow. They created rules such as prisoners are required to eat their entire meal three times a day, prisoners are assigned a number to be referred to as instead of their actual name, and no prisoners are allowed to touch guards in any circumstance. These rules internalised the roles of prisoner and guard in the participants. The researchers also influenced the experiment by leaving alcohol in the guards room. Alcohol can turn people violent which was shown in the scene mentioned earlier of the guard urinating on the prisoner. The guard was holding a bottle of liquor, and more than half was empty while shaving the prisoner's hair and urinating on him. Since one of the rules was no outside items are allowed in the facility during the course of the experiment, the alcohol was obviously left there intentionally by the researchers. The participants were aware of the experiment they were being observed for, but they did not realise the rules were put in place to cause the participants to unconsciously develop their belief of their assigned character. The researchers even had a camera in the tank the guards used for solitary confinement. They knew there was a huge chance of the guards putting a prisoner in the tank so they had a night vision camera placed inside as well. The camera allowed the researchers to see how the participant would react being locked in a tank with hardly any space and no light. The events and violent acts that took place were expected and influenced by the researchers, while the participants were not aware of their

I was reluctant to tackle the amount of group work that was required, but I found it to be most pleasant working with my peers who were excited as I was to investigate the jail system in Dutchess county. Contrarily, I always found that doing assignments myself was always better than the alternative—group projects. I was never usually paired with individuals that had the same work ethic that I had, and often found them difficult to accomplish. However, doing this presentation with the group I was assigned with was a positive experience for me.

The experiment seemed fairly harmless when it was started, 21 Stanford students, all volunteers for an experiment on studying lives in prison. As the days go on, the experiment gets darker and darker. This is shocking to me, as you would think that they would remember that this is just an experiment, so there is no real danger. They prove that to not be the

The Stanford Prison Experiment was to see what would happen if average boys were given roles of guards or inmates and see what would happen. A couple of days into the experiment problems started to occur and “as the guards ratcheted up their psychological aggression, the prisoners began having emotional breakdowns--real ones” (Mechanic 1). The guards became more violent and evil when the inmates had done nothing wrong, because they are just boys who were just ordinary civilians, but the guards treated them as actual prisoners and it made the prisoners have emotional breakdowns. These people would choose to harm someone for no reason. These subjects were ordinary people, but when they were a part of the experiment most of them chose to be evil and savage, and deep down everyone is

The more submissive the prisoners were acting, the more they were taken advantage of by the guards. Only a few days into the experiment, things started to get uncontrollable. Prisoners removed their ID numbers and blocked themselves inside the cells with the beds. This caused the guards to become more verbally violent and intimidating towards the prisoners. The experiment had started having an effect on the actors to the point where some prisoners even had to be freed because they were acting out and becoming emotionally unstable.

Working in a group setting can cause strain on some individuals, but it also can be helpful to the same individual. Group projects are a major component to both negative and positive effects. There are then easy and hard components of working in a group setting, that can range from person to person. The easiest part of working in a group project was commitment, trust, and motivation. In our group everyone was committed toward getting a great grade and wanting to work for that. Group projects usually tend to have people rely on others to do the work. For this project, for example, I believe my group did not have that issue. We all worked together, splitting parts up for the presentation, including the PowerPoint, annotated bibliography, and

The group discussion has just passed, and it was really a hard work and challenging. There were many precious lessons I got, and, hopefully, so did with my friends. Our group was consisting of four students. As a quantity, reasonably, we had had enough power to do a better work and gained a satisfying result. As I flashed back to the group discussion, it was enriching my memories. Some were in high spirit, remarkable and enjoyable. Opposite to it, few were disappointing.

I am Zeeshan Ali; I am working as a Computer teacher for Classes VI-X-M in Canal Side Boys Campus. I have done Masters in Computer Science (MCS) from Punjab University College of Information and Technology (PUCIT) Lahore. The students are the main focus of every teacher and our entire teaching efforts circle round our students to achieve the set targets. Effective Teaching includes many useful teaching strategies that a teacher chooses according to the requirement of his/her respective subject and topic as well. In result of my years of experience and as a Computer teacher I find Group Work as the most effective and fruitful technique at every level.

With all groups advantages and disadvantages will consistently be prevalent. Each individual plays a different role within the group. For example, in an article written by Robert Gilman in Strategies Written for Cultural Change, the article mentions the different roles of groups and how each coincides; some are initiators, coordinators, opinion givers, etc. However, if you have too many of the same role, it is likely that nothing will get done. Not because they are not focused but because no one can come to a decision. There are many advantages and also disadvantages to being in a group; it is how the work ethics come together that makes for a harmonious group.

In conclusion, this class has changed my perspective about working in a group. Since my prior experience with groups was so unsettling, I believed that all groups were going to be the same. However, this class has made it possible to believe that there are groups that respect and take into consideration other members’

This study provided an opportunity to indicate the importance of the efficient group work activities. The reason of selecting this subject is depending on my observations in İstek Semiha Şakir High School. From my observations, there are several problems in classroom environment; however, inefficient group work activities are one of the most common problem in classes during my observations.

Students were first required to share their answers with their group members. Sufficient time was given to them to reach a consensus on each question since the perceived likelihood of success does not only depend on how difficult the task is, but also on how well students are prepared for the tasks. Asking students to work in groups can increase their expectancy of success to a