Medical Prisoners In Medical Experiments

1. The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment that was created to test the effect between prisoners and prison officers. The experiment took place in the basement of one of the buildings in Stanford University. The prisoners and guards in the experiment were college students. The college students were told that they would get $15 dollars a day and that the experiment would last two weeks. The guards and prisoners were decided by a flip of a coin. The experiment abruptly ended after six days because of the mental break downs and hunger strikes the inmates were having. The BoBo Doll Experiment was an experiment that studied aggression. The way that the experiment worked was that they had adults attack the BoBo doll and they made the children watch to see if they would mimic the adults actions. When presented with the BoBo doll the children acted the same way as they saw the adults act. They were able to learn the aggression and hostile language from the adults.

”If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” This small sentence known as the Thomas Theorem carries a lot of meaning in the context of our subjects. The idea of the Thomas Theorem states that if we perceive something to be reality, it will determine how the way we act and think in the situation (Alleydog). The Stanford Prison Experiment is seen in history as one of the most significant psychological experiments of it’s time, and the Abu Ghraib Scandal which happened 30 years later became famous for many of the same reasons. Because of the way this experiment was conducted and the way the real life prison was run, with little control and no intervention in how

In the article Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: A Lesson in the Power of Situation Professor Philip Zimbardo claims that “the situation and the system creating it also must share in the responsibility for illegal and immoral behavior” when deciding an individual’s criminal accountability. Because the power of a situation has an enormous influencing effect on not only the subject, but the people around the situation and that dynamics in military detainment operations carry immediate risks of mistreatment and power abuse. Good people can do very bad things when in a bad situation. Zimbardo starts off his article for the Chronicle of Higher Education with several different social experiments that have been done. After explaining these studies he recalls his own experiment, the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo shares these studies as a cautionary tale and for the audience to reflect on our justice system in regards to imprisonment. Due to Zimbardo’s various appeals to pathos and logos and the methods he used, the argument that he makes about the justice system is effective and relevant.

Those not sent to death camps were sent to something even more cruel: concentration camps. In the early days of the war, these camps were only used to house political prisoners of the war such as communists, previous criminals, prisoners of war, and extending even to tramps and beggars (“Concentration Camps” Gale, 127). In 1936, the concentration camp system extended greatly to include Jehovah’s witnesses, convicted prostitutes, Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals (“Concentration Camps” United States Holocaust Museum, par. 1). After 1936, the camps were built next to or near quarries or brickyards and factories where prisoners were forced to perform heavy labor until they were too weak to continue. (128). The program was known as “Vernichtung durch Arbeit”, or “Annihilation through Work” (par. 4). Upon arrival to the camps, lines were formed in front of SS medical officers who directed each prisoner to the left or the right. If you were directed to the right, then you were to live, but die a more drawn out than those who went left

Prisons in the United States have been labeled as places where cruel and unusual punishments occur and are rightfully labeled as such; not because of the demeanor of certain group of people, but because of the specific situation and scenarios these people are in. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) was set up to help understand the development and growth of the norms based on certain roles, labels and expectations in a simulated prison environment. This paper is going to explain and describe the experiment Philip Zimbardo set up and how it relates to the real world in non-experimental situations in regards with the controversy of prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib, Iraq.

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"~– John F. Kennedy. For many years young adults have been pressured to do things that they might not want to go through, even though the situation might be harmful to them or others. However they go through with it anyway because they feel the need to fit in with their peers. Conformity is defined as the change in behavior that arises from social influences that may be put on one in different situations, in order to fit in with a certain group. Although people may indulge with people who encourage good behaviors, but it usually ends with kids being encouraged to act with inhuman and savage actions.

Evil exists in our environments. I believe that everyone is born with good intentions. I think the environments that we are put into make us either have a good or evil mindset. An example from the film was the Stanford Prison Experiment. Before the men were put into a prison environment, all of them were just normal college students.

The conclusion of Stanford Prison experiment was shocking because the participants were normal people just like us therefore the experiment made us question that if we were the guards, could we do the same thing? Dr. Zimbardo later explained that the main reason of guard’s behaviors was the role they played which later shaped their attitudes.Guards had power over prisoners.They had sticks,handcuffs, sun glasses. Those materials were also important factors to see and understand the guard’s behaviors. When we look at the Stanford Prison experiment and it’s conclusions , we see a lot from the real life. We can explain police brutality and excessive use of force looking at the Stanford Prison Experiment. Polices have a power over civilians ,

Per the Stanford Prison Experiment article (Haney, C., Banks, C. & Zimbardo, P. 1971/1973) the general topic is to address the underlying psychological mechanisms for human aggression as well as societal group impacts on situations. The experiment was developed to observe, evaluate and investigate if and how people conform to a role play situation in a prison environment. Also, to determine the environmental implications as well as how social roles impact conformity on the situation to test the dispositional hypothesis.

Everyone likes to think that they’re a good person, however the question is when put in a negative environment will everyone continue to be that same person? Or perhaps a darker side that they never knew would be revealed when their characters are tested in a hostile and scary environment. In this paper, I will be analyzing the Stanford Prison Experiment. I will be looking into what the intentions were, the ethical issues surrounding this notorious experiment, what classic resolution principles would be applied to this situation, and what exactly can be learnt from this experiment.

Zimbardo had hoped to manifest the dehumanisation and the disconnection of social as well as moral efficacy once applied to guards in submerging circumstances, which resulted to more than slight complications, causing difficulty in proceeding with the experiment. Studies have uncovered that people had obeyed authority figures whether it meant acting in opposition of their own moral certitude. The Stanford Prison has changed the perspective of those who occupy knowledge of the scenario, better classified as a psychological experimentation. Investigating the purity of human beings registered to roles out of the ordinary as opposed to the typical environmental situation, it had inferred that even the good were capable of being in possession of a character and settle in with the duty allocated to them even if it required malicious acts.

Suspected terrorists were interrogated at Guantanamo in 2002. The interrogation strategies used then matched the legal definition of torture; torture is defined as “an act intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering” (Thomas 2). The military used constant light exposure, aggressive canines, and isolation to elicit information from the many terrorists that were interrogated.As of today, the American Psychological Association (APA) prohibits health experts from “being present in the interrogation room, asking or suggesting questions, or advising authorities on the use of specific techniques of interrogation with particular detainees” (Marks 1). Simply put, trained psychiatrists are not allowed to assist an interrogation in any way. Their knowledge of the human brain can serve to be too harmful when used

The Stanford Prison experiment was conducted in 1971 by Philip Zimbardo. Zimbardo is a social psychologist at Stanford University, and has been for over 50 years. The study took place to determine the emotional and psychological effects that took place people placed as prisoners or guards. This experiment was a success because it brought out different, extreme changes in both groups of participants. One of the main problems with the experiment was how successful it was, when prisoners started to exhibit severe emotional distress and other abnormal behavior and, guards began to become extremely violent with the amount of power they had. Another problem was the morality of the experiment as a whole. When Dr. Christina Maslach

There was no clear rules in that experiment, so the prison guards could do everything they wanted to do to prisoners.

During Hitler’s mass killing of about six million, Nazis imprisoned many Jews and other races they thought inferior to them in concentration camps. Within the walls of these camps, the Nazi doctors had many opportunities to experiment on the prisoners at the camp in various ways. During the Holocaust, the Nazis performed many different medical experiments on the prisoners at the concentration camps which proved to lacerate and scar the victims of the medical experiment.