Zimbardo: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Writing Assignment What Zimbardo was trying to find out in the Stanford Prison Experiment was how prison inmates where acting towards the guards in the jails. The study was being done that Zimbardo converted a basement in Stanford University into a mock prison. As this was all coming together he was looking for volunteers to participate in a study to see the psychological effects of prison life. He was trying to see if you took good people and put them in an evil place how would they react to the “prison life.” Zimbardo would advertise adds that they were giving diagnostic interviews and personality test to get rid of the people who have disabilities or history of crime or drug abuse. When Zimbardo had picked out the 24 college students. They

Which was informed consent, do not harm, avoid deception, and protect respondents’ privacy and responsibility to the scientific community. With the Stanford Experiment he did do all of this Voluntary and informed them of what was happening. He stated this all in the consent forms and showed them what they were getting involved in. Then when he broke them into special groups to have the guards and the prisoners which at the time the guards were part of the 24 put into the experiment. Then another type was harm. In the Stanford Experiment Zimbardo did violate this. Because you have to inform the autonomous person of the nature of risk, and that their might be minimal risk. In this case however when the inmates were getting out of hand the guards were getting a little too rough with them causing harm on them. Another type is deception because if you use deception you have to let them know about harm or debrief. You also have to clarify what is going on. This is in the video of Milgrim’s Obedience to Authority. Because what was happening was a student was asking a question to a person behind another wall. If the person behind the wall missed the question he or she would be shocked. The questions however would keep going on, and the student who asked the question did not realize that there was an experimenter watching them. Because as the question kept on rolling through the shock pain would increase higher. Students asking the question however demand at times to stop this. Because they believed he or she was causing too much pain to the person behind the wall. This is why Milgrim’s Obedience to Authority was a violation of deception. The last rule was privacy. This was two options Anonymity and Confidentiality. This meant between the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgrim’s Obedience to Authority. That procedures must be taken in order to keep people’s record and personal information