Yara's Experiment of a Fitting in Role Play

They will be high school students that will be randomly selected from a high school population. All participants will be about the same age, all high school students, and intelligence level since they will all be attending the same high school. The participants will be selected randomly from a high school population. The experiment will be conducted in the same way for all of the groups. Additionally, the same amount of M&Ms will be eaten by each participant during the experiment.

I believe that although valuable information came from it, the ethical quality of this experiment is very questionable. I suspected that the guards would turn more authoritative than any of them would have in real life, but I never thought that they would go as far as ridiculing some prisoners to tears. Although there were none of the prisoners had any long term effects from participating, while in the experiment they would be harassed and punished for no reason, which is where I think the experiment should have been discontinued. Control of the experiment was lost as everybody involved, including Zimbardo became completely engulfed in their roles of the prison. This really makes me question Zimbardo and the other researchers to how they could be too involved in their own experiment to stop the experiment when it began to grow out of control. I think that in the experiment the guards showed who they really were. None of them would have acted that way in their own lives. Zimbardo watched all of this on a hidden camera, and didn’t do anything until long after I along with many others think it should have been. It’s not only that the participants didn’t see the unethical characteristics of this experiment, a priest that was called in and the prisoners parents that came for a visitation day didn’t protest the treatment of their sons after hearing stories of the mock prison. There is something about these symbols of

In the Zimbardo’s The Stanford Prison Experiment; however, the ‘guards’ and ‘prisoners’ were placed in the same facility and were face to face on a daily basis unlike the Milgram experiment. The ‘guards’ would tell the ‘prisoners’ jokingly to do something, however the ‘prisoners’ would do what they were commanded to do to try to hang on to their identity. (Zimbardo 393) By the end of the experiment most ‘prisoners’ showed increased stress levels in the ‘prisoners’ within days, some ‘prisoners’ could not handle the stress induced and had to be released early. The ‘guards’ were equally changed do to the scenario they were put in. One journal of the ‘guards’ showed how a passive person became a person shoving food down another person’s mouth and locking them up in solitary confinement (Zimbardo 389-399).

In the experiment, people were picked randomly and one as a teacher and one as the student. They were told to take a quiz and give electric shocks of increasing intensity as punishment if the student can’t answer. During the experiment, many people were concerned as someone can be heard shouting but only a few people who decided to stop and stick to their morals. But the others kept on going because they were just following orders from a superior (Milgram 77). "The Stanford Prison Experiment” by Philip Zimbardo, is about an experiment that was made to understand the roles people play in prison situations. For the experiment, Zimbardo converted a basement of the Stanford University psychology building into a mock prison. The participants were told to act as prisoners and guards. It was planned to be a two-week experiment but was forced to shut down in 6 days, all because of people quickly getting into their roles and started acting like the real prisoners and guards (Zimbardo 104). To compare both experiments, although they differed vastly in design and methodology, the point of both experiments was to observe how far an individual would go in inflicting increasing pain on a victim. Also how people obey under authoritative circumstances, when given power or different roles, however the writers differ in the seriousness of the fight for individuality and the use of reality.

Conclusion: People will readily conform to the social roles they are expected to play, especially if the roles are as strongly stereotyped as those of the prison guards. The “prison” environment was an important factor in creating the guards’ brutal behavior (none of the participants who acted as guards showed sadistic tendencies before the study). Therefore, the roles that people play can shape their behavior and attitudes.

Some other preconditions were to make the experimental setting bear a resemblance as closely to a functional simulation of the psychology of imprisonment as humanly possible. He also wanted to make sure that there was the absence of any earlier indoctrination in how to play the randomly assigned roles; to leave that up to each participant’s prior societal teachings of the meaning of prisons and the behavioral scripts associated with the oppositional roles (Zambardo, 2005). Although he had a significantly large abundance

In Maria Konnikova’s “The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment” she reveals what she believes to be the reality of sociologist Philip Zimbardo’s controversial study: its participants were not “regular” people.

In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues created the experiment known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo wanted to investigate further into human behavior, so he created this experiment that looked at the impact of taking the role of a prisoner or prison guard. These researchers examined how the participants would react when placed in an institutionalized prison environment. They set up a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University’s psychology building. Twenty four undergraduate students were selected to play the roles of both prisoners and guards. These students were chosen because they were emotional, physically, and mentally stable. Though the experiment was expected to last two weeks, it only lasted six days after the researchers and participants became aware of the harm that was being done.

Interestingly enough, participants became so taken into the ordeal that they seem to forget who they were and that they were involved in an experiment as prisoner participants had internalized their roles. This is based on the fact that some had stated that they would accept parole even under the condition of giving up all of their participation pay. However, when their parole applications were denied, none of

For decades, researchers have debated the different aspects of human behavior. In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment in “a mock correctional facility,” located in the basement of Stanford University. With the help of the Palo Alto Police and twenty-four male subjects, Zimbardo unearthed the “amorality and darkness [that can] inhabit the human psyche” when one is expected to follow a prescribed role. After choosing 24 male subjects, Zimbardo randomly separated the men into two groups. One group was composed of twelve guards, and the other of twelve prisoners. The article “Stanford Prison Experiment” contributed to the idea that, Philip Zimbardo’s experiment raised many questions concerning a humans ethical integrity. Furthermore, Philip Zimbardo theorized

In the Stanford prison experiment the researcher, Philip Zimbardo, thought they were just going to figure out the psychology of prison life. Little did he know this experiment would change the view of roles in society. Humans tend to fall into the role society lays out for us as proven by the Stanford prison experiment. When Zimbardo was planning the experiment, in August of 1971, he was just searching for the psychology of prison life, to see how people act when they are put into a powerless situation.

First off, Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, who is a psychologist was interested in finding out if being in a certain environment changes a person. In this case Dr. Zimbardo decided to use a prison as the chosen environment. Dr. Zimbardo. In order, to test this out he had to built a jail. Dr. Zimbardo was able to build on in a basement of the University of Stanford. The subjects which he used were all typical college students, all which were males, 24 of them to be exact. Out of these 24 subjects they assigned to either be a prisoner or a guard. Dr. Phillip Zimbardo wanted to to answer “Does prison change prison change people, or were they already different going in?” The the theory which he proposed according to the article is “the environment around you, the situation,

According to Philip Zimbardo, The methods of the study was to observe the effects of playing the role of the prison ‘guard’ or “prisoners” in the contest of the experiment prison environment. Zimbardo thought his research would be a simple one involving an assignment of those the guards and the prisoners. Advertisements were placed in newspaper offering $15 per day for participants in the program. Out of 75 respondents the 24 male who were thought to be mentally stable were selected mainly middle class and white males, they were into two groups randomly, of the 12 prisoners and guards. The group that was selected to be guards was outfitted in military like clothing and mirrored shades that were intimidating. Zimabrdo however acted as the warden for the duration of the experiment, informed the guards that the only rule was that no physical punishment

This study is an experiment, which shows that human behaviour depends on their circumstance by using role-playing of prisoners and prison guards. If I were a guard, I would become a person who suggests using psychological tactics to control them because I do not want me to be violent and I believe that it can be solved without threat. The reason why "good guards" did not restrain "bad guards" is that the norm which is an attitude, opinion, feeling, or action as a guard was already made by all guards; accordingly, no matter who was good or bad, they were devoted to their roles. The identity of a person or place is the characteristics they have that distinguish them from others. I think that the identity is related with definition from other

Throughout history there have been hundreds upon hundreds of influential figures, although not all of them have devoted their career to understanding the human mind. Of the few who have devoted their time to this hugely important task, Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo’s theories and experiments have made him stand out, and differentiate himself from the rest in his profession. Zimbardo 's area of expertise in the field of psychology is social psychology, the branch that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual. Zimbardo may be most well known for his Stanford Prison experiment, an experiment that seems to address the definition of social psychology perfectly. In this experiment Zimbardo had clinically healthy and sane people volunteer for the position of a prison guard or a prisoner and see how they behaved, for fifteen dollars a day. The prison was actually the basement of the Stanford psychology building, where the experiment would take place for a planned 14 days. As said before, the prisoners and guards were all tested as mentally healthy, and for the sake of the experiment were arrested, and processed on a random morning, August 14th 1971. (Zimbardo, 2007, p. 23). The results of this experiment are outstanding, shocking, and somewhat disturbing, making this one of, if not, the most unethical psychological experiments. Although the experiment is considered wildly immoral, Zimbardo is one of the most influential psychologists