Summary Of The Zimbardo Prison Experiment

After reading the Stanford Prison Experiment that was conducted by Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues, to determine if roles have an effect on ones’ judgement. This was determined by developing a prison simulation that would place participants in a situation that would require them to play the proper role, knowingly or unaware of this action. As for deciding the proper participants, numerous tests were used on them, to ensure that none of the participants had a psychological disorder that could affect the results of the study. Therefore, 20 participants were able to meet all the requirements for the study; however, only 18 participants were used throughout the whole study, and the rest were called in if it was necessary. This would then lead

The Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment has to be one of the cruelest and disturbing experiments I have witnessed since the Milgram experiment. This experiment was pushed far beyond its means and went extremely too far. I know experiments in 1971 weren’t as thorough and strategic as today's but I know today's rules and regulations never allow cruel and unusual punish just to test out one’s theory’s. I don’t believe criminologists should be permitted to conduct replications of Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment. I also know that the ACJS and other organizations who set the rules and guidelines for experiments would not promote or condone an experiment that is dangerous and is unethical such as Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment. There were no boundaries or a level

Summary of the Stanford Prison Experiment. The stanford prison experiment is an investigation of how people will adhere to the cliché prisoner and guard roles in a simulated prison. According to Stanford Prison Experiment. Retrieved from https://www.dowellwebtools.com/tools/lp/Bo/psyched/17/Stanford_Prison_Experiment Philip Zimbardo the head researcher and acting prison warden says, "The purpose [of the experiment] was to understand the development of norms and the effects of roles, labels, and social expectations in a simulated prison environment. " What followed was an unimaginable series of events that appeared to bring out the worst in both the prisoners and the guards.

The Zimbardo prison experiment was a study of human responses to captivity, dehumanization and its effects on the behavior on authority figures and inmates in prison situations. Conducted in 1971 the experiment was led by Phlilip Zimbardo. Volunteer College students played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a simulated prison setting in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.

Essay #2 The influence someone can have on the behavior of another is not tangible it’s difficult to pinpoint to something physical and is problematic to attempt to duplicate and experiment on which in some cases could border on the inhumane. The Stanford Prison Experiment is a fascinating example in which an observation of human behavior took an unexpected turn which questioned the true morality of the participants. The conclusions had far reaching implications about human behavior and about the natural and inherent lack of morality observed in everyday people when placed in certain situations. The behavior of every single participant had been affected and changed during the course of the experiment.

The “guards” could have lost their complete sense of reality and agreed to these unethical procedures because they were merely playing a part in this experiment. Zimbardo tried to justify these unethical acts by stating that these procedures were implemented so that the “prisoners” were in the proper frame of mind. What I took from this study was the potential fact that normal healthy, educated young men could be completely transformed under the institutional pressures of a “prison

Throughout history, the theme of “good” people turning evil under the pressure and influences of different ideas and people are commonly seen. This idea of good people turning bad was further strengthen in Philip Zimbardo’s Mock Prison Experiment and other past events such as the French Foreign Legion, the guards in the Abu Ghraib prison, and so on. This event demonstrated that even innocent, good beings could transform into an abusive and evil person, given the right conditions and incentives.

However, this was not before the “guards” already showed major problems with throwing authority around by hitting a “prisoner”. On the second day of the experiment, “prisoners” rebelled against the guards which provoked the “guards” to put a rewards and punishment system into place, which turned into a hunger for power. This power-hungry alliance of “guards” forced three “prisoners” to be released from the experiment for traumatic experiences by day four. As the experiment continued, the “guards” only became more tyrannical while the “prisoners” become more unhinged. This forced Dr. Zimbardo to finally discontinue the experiment after day

Phillip Zimbardo, a well-known psychologist, taught at schools such as NYU, Yale and Stanford. Although, he gained popularity for his work at Stanford, especially regarding the Stanford prison experiment. Zimbardo’s experiment commenced by recruiting Stanford undergrads for rigorous testing for their mental stability and other physical factors. It resulted in 21 undergrads being placed in “a 2-week study, divided randomly into 10 “prisoners,” and 11 ”guards.” They were placed into a prison setting, where the prisoners occupied cells, and the guards watched over them. After 6 days, the experiment had spun out of control as simulation turned into reality, necessitating the early release of some prisoners” (Whitbourne). The whole experiment want array after just one day, humanity was not at its finest.

Have you ever wondered why ordinary people do unusual things that seem alien to their natures? Why do good people sometimes act evil? Who do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? Zimbardo is one of the most significant social psychologist and all his work aims to find the answers to these questions. The purpose of this paper is to go into depth on the previous prison experiment, how it came about, and how the findings play a role in society today.

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a psychology experiment performed by Philip Zimbardo in 1971. He was previously a student of Stanley Milgram who is best known for his experiments involving obedience. In order for Zimbardo to perform his project he needed the assistance of his colleagues. Zimbardo was inspired by his professor and wanted to do more. He knew exactly how to do this and began to execute his plan.

This study performed by the researchers and psychology professor, Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971 was conducted as a study of the psychological effects of incarceration both through the experience of a prisoner and prison guard. The experiment involved 24 male student volunteers who were randomly assigned roles of either an inmate or prison guard. This experiment took place in a mock prison for a duration of 14 days, during which the participants adapted to the assigned roles too well. The effects of the experiment changed both the students portraying prison guards and by those acting as prisoners. The prisoners’ behavior became passive and accepting the psychological abuse and the prison guards

This paper serves to summarize The Zimbardo Prison Experiment, better known as The Stanford Prison Experiment which was conducted by Phillip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University. The purpose of the study was to conduct research in order to better understand the psychological components of human aggression and submission to include conformity and obedience in a prison environment with a select group of subjects playing roles as either prison guards or inmates, however, I should note, according to McLeod, S. (2016), The Navy’s intent or purpose for the experiment was to better understand how to train members of the armed forces on how to cope with stress associated with captivity as opposed to making American Prison systems more humane. Another interesting point of note is that Zimbardo conducted this experiment shortly after World War II, and the Vietnam War where concern was raised as to some of the atrocities carried out in those wars where “ordinary” people conducted heinous acts per instruction from so-called authoritative figures. Experiments with similar objectives were carried out by Stanley Milgram and others. (Jones, A. D., & Milgram, S. 1974)

Stanford Prison Experiment is the evil environment and this study is emotionally and painful. Because when I watch these videos it is horrific me, so badly harm and tortures them. I don’t know Professor Philip Zimbardo much realized how far the guards have to go to abuse the prisoners and this difficult situation to observant but “Zimbardo's primary reason for conducting the experiment was to focus on the power of roles, rules, symbols, group identity and situational validation of behavior that generally would repulse ordinary individuals.” This is unbelievable how the guards used their power it is aggression and tactic. I believe this study very interesting how we are human nature act inhuman away again to hard watching what was to these prisoners.

I'm going to analyse the study about the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo, that took place at Stanford University in 1971. He conducted it to see what happens when you put good normal people into an evil place. He wanted to confirm his theory, that if you put normal humans in an environment that is bad, such as a prison, people start to behave against their own nature. The prisoners will follow orders, that could be very stupid, and the guards will give those orders and generally use and abuse their authority. This is because of the social roles that the people are assigned to, and they start to behave according to them. Zimbardo wanted to really understand how and why for example, the Germans behaved as they did during the holocaust, and why and how the prison guards in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq acted in the way that they did.