Prison Experiment Essay

Adrien Brody (Travis) and Forest Whittaker (Michael) star in The Experiment, a film that features a group of men who have volunteered and been chosen for a psychological experiment. In the experiment the 26 men are split up into prison guards and inmates. Travis is selected as a prisoner while Michael is picked to be a guard. A set of strict rules are put into place and if at any time the rules are broken the "experiment" is over and the men will not receive their reward of $14,000 for participating

Abstract This paper will review the study conducted in 1971 called the Stanford Prison Experiment. I will start off by reviewing the reason the study was conducted, the person who conducted it, his goals, and the story of what happened as a result. My review will include the influence of the political, and cultural climate of the time, how these outside forces can directly affect our perceptions, and the choices we make. I will also discuss the goals and purpose of the study, if the study proved

Prison Experiment For the prison experiment, Zimbardo picked random people that applied. People that applied were either going to be chosen to act as a prisoner or a guard for a set up fake prison. The people that got the position to act as the roles got paid. The point for this experiment was to see how long it would take for people to adjust to their role. Zimbardo wanted to find out if how they acted was affected by their surrounding environment or the roles that they had to fill. When the

In my opinion, I believe that the Stanford Prison study led to more harm than the Immunization study because according to prisoner Mr. Ramsey, “the experiment should never have taken place as it had no true scientific basis and was ethically wrong” (Leithhead, 2011). The abuse in this study was so harsh, that they had to end the study early due to “ a string of mental breakdowns, an outbreak of sadism and a hunger strike”(Leithhead, 2011). This study was conducted to see if the violent behaviors

Conclusion In conclusion, the Stanford Prison Experiment was an insightful experiment, yet it was an unfortunate experiment due to the suffering that many “Prisoners” faced from Prison Guard brutality. Power is something that barely any human can control and this was ultimately observed in the Stanford Prison Experiment. The Stanford Prison Experiment personally relates to a situation that I faced in middle school with a close friend. In my last year of middle school, my friends and I started a powerful

Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment to see if normal people would change their behavior in a role-play as a prisoner or a prison guard. The experiment was conducted by Dr.Philip Zimbardo in 1973 at Stanford University and caused numerous amount of trauma to both prisoners and prison guards in their role-playing position which forced Dr. Zimbardo to officially terminate the experiment six days after it was introduced. Due to the cruel aggressive behaviors from the guards, the experiment led to

his career researching how and why people are transformed into certain situations so that they behave in unexpected ways, such as when a good person commits an atrocious act, or an intelligent person does something irrational. The Stanford Prison Experiment is Dr. Zimbardo’s ‘attempt to understand the process of transformation at work when good or ordinary people do bad or evil things.’ (Zimbardo 5). He wants to start with the question “what makes people go wrong?”. He looked at real people who

Zimbardo’s (1971) Stanford’s prison experiment concluded that 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. However, the study has received many ethical criticisms including the lack of informed consent from participants, as even Zimbardo did not know what was going to happen within the experiment. The participants playing the role of prisoners were not protected from psychological harm

If I was in charge of an experiment like the Stanford Prison Experiment, I think that I would have conducted something like that. I don’t see any moral reasoning why not to, all the participants were voluntary and there was nothing illegal being conducted and extremely valuable data has been extracted from it so I do not see the point of steering clear of this type of experiment. I think a good follow on study might have been a roll reversal, would the inmates have taken a different approach to the

Response to Stanford Experiment         The Stanford Prison Experiment happened because it was a breakdown of their rights,ways of thinking, and physical humiliation.         They sabotaged their way of thinking. The feeling and how the place was set up made it feel like it was real and that they were in a real prison. In the movie the guys really were in into the feel of their location and they were planning to escape it like a real prison ,and in the end when the guy told them that they were