Stanford Prison Experiment Introduction Zimbardo: "What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity

[answerhappygod]

Stanford Prison Experiment Introduction Zimbardo What Happens When You Put Good People In An Evil Place Does Humanity 1 (45.26 KiB) Viewed 13 times

Stanford Prison Experiment Introduction Zimbardo: "What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University. "Our study of prison life began with an average group of healthy, intelligent, middle-class males. These boys were arbitrarily divided into two groups by a flip of the coin. Half were randomly assigned to be guards, the other to be prisoners. It is important to remember that at the beginning of our experiment there were no differences between boys assigned to be a prisoner and boys assigned to be a guard." 1. Backgound: What had Milgrim's study shown? 2. Consider the psychological consequences of stripping, delousing. and shaving the heads of prisoners. What transformations take place when people go through an experience like this? What transformations are going through the people doing these acts? Why does this procedure happen to new recruits in the military? 3. How did even Zimbardo, the psychologist conducting the experiment, conform to his role as a prison superintendent, and fail in his role as an experimenter? 4. How did the guards break the solidarity of the prisoners? Why would guards want to do this in general? 5. How did the good guards react to what the bad guards were doing? Why? 6. What are Zimbardo's conclusions about human behaviour, based on this experiment? 7. Using your understanding of the scientific method evaluate: Is this an experiment? Are there any problems with this study? Are there alternative explanations of what happened? 8. What ethical problems do you see with this study?