1. When police arrest somebody, they should follow certain techniques before putting the suspect in prison. For example, police must read the prisoner the five rights, known as the Miranda Rights. The arrested persons must have their rights disclosed to them before they are additionally dealt with or taken away. In cases of arrests, the individuals may not able to understand these rights because of the way that they are treated that can be under unusual circumstances physically and rationally. Additionally, after the arrest, the police may search the suspect for a weapon or different substances; this could make somebody feel anxious fearful and dehumanized. In Stanford prison experiment, the arrests were dehumanizing for the prisoners; after the suspects arrived to the prison, the prisoners were stripped, sprayed down, and their clothes were taken away. The way they were treated was humiliating and deprived them of their rights like wearing dresses and ankle shackles that made them feel they are not free. It was cruel punishment.
2. I think that the main reason the “good guards” did not object to the tougher guards in the Stanford Prison Experiment was because their brutal actions were not directed towards them, and they did not want to confront
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If I were a prisoner in the prison experiment, I would not have been able to endure such experience; I imagine that I would comply with the prison guards for the first few days supposing it was only for trial reason. If the guards went too far in their brutal actions, I would have complained and protested several times until the way I was treated have changed. If my requests would be ignored, I would end up in a very bad stressful condition and demand to be discharged. However, if I was a real prisoner, and detained in a real jail, it would be unique. I am sure it would be extremely hard to live, but I am guilty of a crime, I would accept the sentence if there is no torture or mistreatment against the prison
Many ethical boundaries were crossed in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Abuse was not limited to physical, but also psychological (Burgemeester, 2011). In the movie The Stanford Prison Experiment, which depicts events that actually occurred, the guards played physiological tricks on the prisoners. The prisoners were lead to believe that they actually committed crimes and couldn’t leave the experiment. One main thing that the guards did to physically and psychologically harm the prisoners was to tamper with their sleeping schedules. They would wake the prisoners on the middle of the night and have them do exercises, and once they were done they were permitted to go back to sleep (Ratnesar, 2011). By doing this the prisoners lose sense of what
Phillip Zimbardo, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, engineered “The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted August 1971 at Stanford University.” It was created only for college students in lectures at Stanford University. Zimbardo’s central idea was “to create a functional simulation of a prison, not a literal prison” (¶ 13). During the experiment an event called counts was administered. The guards would wake up the prisoners and make them repeat their individual numbers over and over, for memorization. The counts issued at night by the guards worked to enslave the prisoners, but empower the guards.
In this study Zimbardo chose 21 participants from a pool of 75, all male college students, screened prior for mental illness, and paid $15 per day. He then gave roles. One being a prisoner and the other being a prison guard, there were 3 guards per 8 hour shift, and 9 total prisoners. Shortly after the prisoners were arrested from their homes they were taken to the local police station, booked, processed, given proper prison attire and issued numbers for identification. Before the study, Zimbardo concocted a prison setting in the basement of a Stanford building. It was as authentic as possible to the barred doors and plain white walls. The guards were also given proper guard attire minus guns. Shortly after starting the experiment the guards and prisoners starting naturally assuming their roles, Zimbardo had intended on the experiment lasting a fortnight. Within 36 hours one prisoner had to be released due to erratic behavior. This may have stemmed from the sadistic nature the guards had adopted rather quickly, dehumanizing the prisoners through verbal, physical, and mental abuse. The prisoners also assumed their own roles rather efficiently as well. They started to rat on the other prisoners, told stories to each other about the guards, and placated the orders from the guards. After deindividuaiton occurred from the prisoners it was not long the experiment completely broke down ethically. Zimbardo, who watched through cameras in an observation type room (warden), had to put an end to the experiment long before then he intended
How would you act if you were locked up in a concentration camp and the guards made you suffer? If I were in there, I would listen to the guards because I want less suffered. In addition, I would not try to stand out in the crowed to receive punishment by the guards. In the Movie, The Stanford Prison Experiment, students were split to be two group, guards and prisoner. In the oppressive environment and authority to the guards, the guards were out of control, and they kept on punish prisoner until they broke down. The prisoners were treated as less than human, and they won’t get what they need. Furthermore, these guards will act more aggressive every day to try to force the prisoner to conform. In the film The Stanford Prisoner Experiment, the guards become immoral because they got
You’re sitting at your house, you hear a knock at the door. You go and open it and to your surprise it’s the police. They’re turning you around and placing cold metal handcuffs on you while you’re getting read your miranda rights and spread eagle against the cop car while you’re searched. You’re being slung into the back of a cop car and driven to the police station, sirens wailing. When you arrive you get your picture taken, but you don’t smile. They take your finger and dip it in ink, then push it down hard on a piece of paper. They then put you back into the police car and drive you to another location. You’re still handcuffed, and you’re taken in. They put you in a dress, they put cold, heavy, loud shackles on your ankles. They make you put pantyhose on your head, and put rubber shoes on your feet. Then, last but not least, they place you in a small room with a bed thats nailed to the floor and a metal toilet which is also nailed to the floor. They close the metal bars behind you and it’s loud. Then all you can hear are the chains of your neighbors. All of this, and you're innocent. These are the events that happened to twenty four college males who participated in the Stanford Prison Experiment. This is just one example of many controversial psychological experiments. Certain psychological experiments suggest major controversy and their methods should be reconsidered.
When put into the position of complete authority over others people will show their true colors. I think that most people would like to think that they would be fair, ethical superiors. I know I would, but learning about the Stanford Prison Experiment has made me question what would really happen if I was there. Would I be the submissive prisoner, the sadistic guard, or would I stay true to myself? As Phillip Zimbardo gave the guards their whistles and billy clubs they drastically changed without even realizing it. In order to further understand the Stanford Prison experiment I learned how the experiment was conducted, thought about the ethical quality of this experiment, and why I think it panned out how it did.
Would you go into prison to get paid? Do you believe that you will come out the same or become different? Do not answer that. The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment that was conduct in 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. Seventy applicants answered the ad and were narrowed down to 24 college students, which half were assigned either to be guards or prisoners by random selection. Those 24 college students were picked out from the of 70 applicants by taking personality tests and given diagnostic interviews to remove any candidates with psychological problems, medical disabilities, or a history of crime or drug abuse. The experiment lasted six days but it was supposed to last two weeks, it was so traumatizing that it was cut short. Zimbardo was the lead researcher and also had a role in pretend prison. Zimbardo’s experiment was based on looking
We know that people react differently than others, like the man who left early compared to all of the other men. Though the experiment only lasted less than a weeks’ time, it showed us that we cannot perform these kind of studies without someone on the outside looking in. It was a tough environment for all of the people involved. From Zimbardo right down to the prisoners, it was a tough time. They hadn’t even started to see the changes in themselves being so wrapped up in the study. People will react to certain situations how they seem fit, even when they don’t realize that they are hurting the people around them at the time. I don’t think that any of the guards made it their intention to hurt anyone, they just hadn’t realized it at the time that what they were doing was wrong. We cannot treat each other as less than human beings. Thanks to Christina Maslach, the project was ended early. Without her having seen what she had, who knows how much worse it would have been for everyone involved. We are all human, and no one deserves to be treated as anything less than so; prisoner or
One of the ways that the Stanford Prison Experiment was different than the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal is that in the Stanford Prison Experiment they had roles. Half of the boys were given, the role of prisoners and the other half of the boys was given the role of the prisoner guards. This meant that the half that was guards had the power, whereas the prisoners were powerless because they had to do whatever the guards told them to do. Therefore, since the guards in the experiment knew that they had a lot power, they then began to eventually abuse their power as the experiment went on against the prisoners. For example, in the experiment the guard hit the prisoner with a nightstick out
First of all, integrity means being honest to the participants, which requires telling the participants everything that will or might happen during the experiment. However, for this experiment, the participants had no clue about what will happen during the experiment except for knowing their role only, which was either a prison guard or a prisoner. Same thing applies to the Professional and scientific responsibility principle, which went against the ethical code as the participants knew their role only, but not any specific information about what might happen during the experiment and how to appropriately behave under certain circumstances. Respecting people’s rights and dignity principal is the one extremely went against the ethical codes. This is the one created all the problems and completely changed the expectation of the experiment. The most important right of any experiment is to protect the participants from any harm, but this experiment couldn’t protect it. As the prison guards were in higher position, they behaved like a real prison guards and did what a typical prison guard does. Nevertheless, prison
These strict guidelines along with over 10 others helped shape the prison. The guards at the beginning of the experiment formed these guidelines. Their authority, from the start, was absolute. They did not allow prisoners to speak, eat or even use the restroom without permission. Sometimes, unimaginably, the inmates were not granted permission. Day one of the experiment was full of confusion and learning for everyone involved. The events
To be honest, The Stanford Prison Experiment impacted and affected me the most because I truly hate any kind of abuse and suffering. As I watched the video and read the article about this experiment, it definitely shocked me in the way that how the experiment could change these twenty-four people’s behavior and attitude only a few days in oppressive and pressured situations. I honestly have sympathy for those prisoners. I feel the same way as Christina Maslach, who kept questioning for morality after she saw the prison, that this experiment was so terrible, and I feel so bad that there were no neither chance nor morality for these
The prison experiment was meant to function in much the same way, the prevailing idea being that with no direction, the guards would become the teachers and begin to wield their inherent authority and power over the prisoners, or learners. To essentially prepare both sides for the roles they would play in the prison, Zimbardo instructed the guards to strip the prisoners naked on arrival to the prison before being fitted with chains and given a simple one piece prison gown to wear, with no underwear provided. This humiliation perpetrated by the guards and accepted by the prisoners set the tone for the experiment. The guards wore khaki pants and official looking uniforms, were geared with night sticks and whistles and as a finishing touch wore mirrored sunglasses to hide their eyes from prisoners. (Konnikova, 1) The guards worked in shifts of 8 hours and maintained constant watch on the prisoners. All of this created a sense of authority for the guards both in the eyes of the prisoners as well as their
In Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s 2015 film The Stanford Prison Experiment, he illustrates Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. In Zimbardo’s experiment, he had his subjects adopt roles as either prisoners or prison guards and set up a mock prison in the basement of Jordan Hall, Stanford’s psychology building. In psychology, a role is a set of expectations concerning the ways in which people are supposed to behave in certain situations. Generally, the prison guards were psychologically abusive to the prisoners, making prisoners endlessly repeat menial tasks and attempted to make them turn against each other. Although some of the guards felt bad about doing these things,
This experiment gathered twenty-one young men and assigned half of them to be “prisoners” and the other half to be “guards”. Simply put, the point of the experiment was to simulate a prison and observe how the setting and the given roles affected the behavior of the young men. The men who were given the roles of guard were given a position of authority and acted accordingly. This alone strongly influenced the behavior of both the guards and the prisoners. The guards had a sense of entitlement, control, and power, while the prisoners had a feeling of resentment and rebellion. Social pressure also played a crucial role in the experiment. Many of the guards began to exploit their power by abusing, brutalizing, and dehumanizing the prisoners. Some of the other guards felt wrong about this abuse, but did nothing to put an end to it. Finally, the situation and setting of the experiment immensely altered the conduct of both the prisoners and guards. The setting of being in a prison caused many of the volunteers to act in ways that they may have normally not. Even though the setting of being in a prison was essentially pretend, the volunteers accepted the roles they were given and acted as if it was all a reality. The prisoners genuinely behaved as if they were indeed real prisoners, and the guards treated them likewise. The situation these volunteers