Stanford Prison Experiment Philip G Zimbardo

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

The Stanford Prison Experiment was very strange. When one of the prisoners said “they were out of control,” I thought about an authoritarian leader- someone that controls every aspect of a person’s life. I think Zimbardo, creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the guards were being an authoritarian leader. I thought it was disturbing that some of the people that were given the guards position only said “yes” to participate in the experiment because they needed a job and thought that the Prison Experiment would be more entertaining. I think it was weird that being in this experiment changed the “prisoners” physically and mentally. In the Stanford Prison Experiment video, it mentioned the electric shock experiment that was done to people

The Stanford Prison Experiment was created in 1971 and was led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Twenty-four male college students participated and were randomly chosen to be a prisoner or guard. Zimbardo was the prison warden. The prisoners were blindfolded and brought to the basement of the psychology building that had become a mock prison. The experiment was testing the effects of prison on the guards and prisoners.

In 1971 a scientist known by his students as Professor Zimbardo conducted an experiment to test if the leading cause of abusive behavior in prisons was the inherent personality traits of prisoners and the prison guards (Wikipedia. “Goals and Methods”). Zimbardo began his experiments by selecting twenty-four of his students, twelve to be prisoners and the other twelve to be the guards. His experiment was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research due to the interest of both the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps interest in imprisoned conflict. The problem with this experiment wasn’t the goal; it was the issues throughout the experiment and what was done about them.

Why would you put innocent people through torture to see if they break. The point of this experiment was to make the people who were innocent believe that they were correctional officers and that they were prisoners. First of all why were the correctional officers given two shifts and the prisoners only had one shift which was twenty four seven. Another thing that is irritating and unrealistic is the fact that they had a storage college as a “the hole”. The people in charge have something seriously wrong with them in my opinion. This whole experiment is just crazy to me. When the experiment started they stripped the prisoners down and sprayed them. In real prisons they will strip you down but they do not spray

The Stanford Prison Experiment is a very thought-provoking topic discussed in various classes. Professor and psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted this experiment through Stanford University. Twenty-four men were randomly selected to participate in a simulated prison environment and were given roles as prisoners or prison guards. This was done to challenge the moral compass of “good” individuals in a negative environment, which in this case was a prison. Surprisingly, the participants truly embodied their roles. Throughout the experiment, the prison guards enforced their authoritarian power and tormented the prisoners both

The Stanford prison experiment was conducted in 1971 by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University. The experiment was a revolutionary psychological study which investigated how freely people would transfer to the role of a real world circumstance, in this case as a prisoner and a guard in a prison-like environment in the basement of the psychology department.

The point of this experiment is cause and effect based, seeing how putting people in a harsh, pressuring environment, effects their mental health. On day one the men were arrested, like any other criminal, and brought into the prison. There the guards stripped them from their worldly clothes and took away their personal belongings. Once naked, the guards began to make fun of the prisoners’ bodies and genitals.

Because the guards were placed in a position of power, they began to behave in ways they would usually not act in their everyday lives or other situations. The prisoners, placed in a situation where they had no real control, became passive and depressed. The experiment also showed how subjects reacted to the specific needs of the situation rather than referring to their own internal morals or beliefs. Also, the results of the experiment have been used in numerous high profile cases over the years, the courts used this experiment to show that a prison must have clear instructions and guidelines from higher authorities, or prisoner abuse may happen. The downsides to this experiment were many of the prisoners "were experiencing incidents of humiliation and distress".

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a psychological experiment that took place at Stanford University from August 14th to August 20th in the year 1971. The experiment was help by professor Phillip Zimbardo, a psychology professor at the university. The goal of the experiment was to find out when you “put good people in an evil place” and whether or not the institution that you are in can determine or control your behavior. The “evil place” or negative environment that Zimbardo chose to simulate for the experiment was a prison, which would be built in the basement of Stanford’s psychology building. The prison was complete with its own cells with jail doors and a tiny dark room, which would be used for solitary confinement.

Philip Zimbardo, professor of psychology, wrote a very interesting article that kept me wondering how far these people could go throughout the whole experiment. It offers a truly raw insight on humans and what they do when given a role that they have to meet. It shows that even the most goodhearted people can be turned cruel and the most hardheaded people can become submissive if pushed.

The Stanford Prison Experiment took place August 14-20th 1971. It was an experiment conducted by graduate students of psychology and psychology professor Philip Zimbardo from the University of Stanford, to test the power of the person. They did so by turning part of the university into a prison-like setting. They had chow hall, solitary confinement rooms, a guard room and cells for the participants. There were two groups, group one prison guards and group two the prisoners. What the hopes were for the experiment was to find out how people would conform to a role given to them, how fast, how much they would change, how it affected attitudes of the participants and many other psychological aspects, but the ones mentioned were the main focus. The only thing the graduate students and professor were trying to do was place the guards and prisoners in a prison setting and see how things went. The experiment was scheduled to last two whole weeks, but due to the conditions that were created during the experiment and how fast things changed, it was stopped at only six

The Stanford Prison Experiment addressed the psychology of behavior. The experiment specifically addressed the influences of behavior in regards to imprisonment. I recently saw a documentary about the Stanford Prison Experiment and I was shocked that subjects were subjected to such cruelty. The subjects were young intelligent students who likely had never encountered such abuse. Sadly, in the 1970s experiment rules and regulations were severely lacking. Students who volunteered for the two-week experiment were assigned roles of being a prisoner or guard. The determination of who was chosen as a guard or a prisoner was solely dictated by a simple coin flip. The students who were selected at random to be guards were instructed to instill a sense of sadness, lack of freedom, and fear in the prisoners. Guards were allowed to use physical force, but they were not allowed to use torture. “The point to be emphasized is the manner in which a concrete institutional structure can radically reshape individual behavior” (Cooper, 1985).

Four guys did nothing to help but watch their close friend Matthew Carrington chugged water uncontrollably and die from fraternity hazing, in other words intoxication. Carrington’s friends were basically waiting to see who would step up and help not taking charge of the situation. With that being said, Philip Zimbargo introduced the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 with the hypothesis of whether brutality reported among guards had to do with the prisons environment, or with the sadistic personalities of the guards. The experiments procedure was conducted using 24 male college students randomly assigned to the role of prisoner or guard in a simulated prison environment. The prisoners were housed in a solitary confinement cell, given a number

The Stanford Prison Experiment is a film directed by  Kyle Patrick Alvarez in 2015. The movie is based on a real-life psychology experiment conducted at California's Stanford University in August 1971. There are 75 volunteers were willing to join the experiment and 24 volunteers were picked after the interview. Because Dr Zimbardo and his team wanted to have the most normal and healthy people. All the participants were assigned as prisoners or guards, half prisoner and half guard. And they were assigned randomly. The experiment team tried to prove that prisoners and guards would tend to slip into predefined roles, behaving in a way that they thought was required, rather than using their own judgment and morals.