Zimbardo Analysis

In The Stanford Prison Experiment it explains how guards take power over the prisoners. In paragraph 11 it tells how they are tormenting the prisoners and enjoying the things that they are doing. The guards demanded even greater obedience from

Less than two days into the experiment, one of the prisoners began to experience rage, emotional disturbance, uncontrollable crying, began acting crazy, and screaming. The experiment leaders realized he was really suffering and they had to release him. The next day was visiting day for the parents and friends of the prisoners. In order to stop parents from taking their children home, the experimenters cleaned the prison and the prisoners to make them seem pleasant. After the parents visited, there were rumors going around that the prisoners were going to attempt to escape. After the rumor was proved to be untrue, guards acted harshly towards the prisoners and added punishments. A priest who visited the prison, talked with prisoners and offered to contact some of their families for legal help. By day five, there were three types of guards; tough but fair guards, good guards, and hostile guards.

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).

So In The Stanford Prison Experiment They tested how the guards and prisoners acted over a span of a couple days. The guards started being really rude while making mean comments about the prisoners so much so they had to end the experiment early. Mcleod stated that “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

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

I think the purpose of Zitkala-Ša’s writing is to show how she felt experiencing a new place away from her family and experiencing a new culture. Zitkala-Ša’s village seems that it has its own traditions and culture. Zitkala-Ša’s did not know any of the white pale face cultures and it shocked her and surprised her. For example, when she first arrived and a rosy-cheeked paleface women caught her (carried her), Zitkala-Ša’s was “frightened and insulted by such trifling.” She wanted to be put down and to stand on her feet. Other children in today culture always like to be held and carried. However, the way she explained how her mother never made a playing of her wee daughter, shows us how her culture doesn't like to get close or physical with

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.

Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo offer the idea that heroism can be adopted by every individual, and how we can implement this embodiment into everyday life. Franco and Zimbardo explain the "banality of evil" is when an ordinary person under a certain condition or social pressure can commit inhumane acts, and this could be proven through behavioral science. Nevertheless, Franco and Zimbardo suggest that just like evil there could be a "banality of heroism"; furthermore, this suggests that one could nurture heroism through the heroic imagination. Franco and Zimbardo emphasize the importance of the heroic imagination; furthermore, the heroic imagination grants individuals the ability to imagine themselves as heroes. In addition, allowing individuals

Zimbardo lost factuality he was only conducting an experiment and that led to him believing his own experiment and take the role of a warden serious.

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

Before exploring the nature of the situation, we need to distinguish between a situation, a context, and a structure. For this purpose, I will use the example of a theatre play.

Ethics were removed in hopes that the experiment was as accurate as possible. Many individuals broke down physically as well as psychologically. The experiment was halted on the sixth day, but was intended for two full weeks. The conclusion of this experiment was that individuals welcomed conformity and took on these social roles as best they could. This experiment main goal was to investigate whether the brutality reported among guards in the American prisons was due to having a sadistic personality of the guards, or had more to do with the environment of being in a prison.

This experiment is a single blinded experiment. A lot of consideration was taken when picking the guards and the prisoners. All of the subjects were asked about their history with violence, personal history, and religion. Test conductors even tested their heart rates while watching videos of shootings, deaths, accidents, protests, wars, and animals hurting other animals. Test conductors also took into consideration the fact that the inmates had walked in peace marches that often turned violent. This simple test would promote the school of thought called psychoanalysis because some of them would have a positive unconscious thoughts towards the violence while other had positive. This is similar to the experiment where a teacher separated a

Every time there was an increase of violence and abuse as a reaction to the prisoner’s attitudes of suffering. As time went by, the punishment was stronger. Prisoners reacted like wanting to do harm to others. There was a very important conclusion from the person responsible of the experiment when he found that he became a part of his experiment and began to play the role of the chief of the prison. That was when he noticed he had crossed the line.

The experiment was several things one of then but not least of was unethical. From the way they treated the participants that were prisons and what they let the guards subject them to. The prisoners were dehumanized they were identified by numbers and had chains wrapped around their legs. The guards had pretty much all the power with no one really authority telling them what not to do. The experiment in my eyes can have permanent damage on their participant psyche.