Stanford Prison Experiment

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  1. 2. _ researchers wrote “the guards’ regime was seen by all to be unworkable and at an end” after prisoners continuously successfully challenged guards
  2. 6. _ included instances of humiliation such as stripping prisoners and abuse of denial of food and proper hygiene conditions. One prisoners conducted Gandhi-style hunger strike, and was punished by solitary confinement in a closet.
  3. 7. The Stanford Prison Experiment, a social psychology study in which college students roleplayed as prisoners or guards by Doctor Philip Zimbardo began in the _ of 1971
  4. 8. John Marks - a guard reports “[Zimbardo] wanted to be able to say that college students, people from middle-class backgrounds … people of equal position will turn on each other after being given a role and_. Based on my experience, and what I saw and what I felt, I think that was a real stretch.”
  5. 10. How many days did the experimented last for before being shut down due to unethical abuse spiralling out of control and becoming “too real”?
  6. 11. Inability to _ occurred when one of the prisoners complained about living conditions and desire to leave the experiment to visiting family, but was quickly stopped by one of the guards.
  7. 12. Zimbardo reported that all the participants of the prison experiment were tested to be _ and “normal”. However they were still a self-selected group who volunteered for a prison life study
  8. 13. Later discovered tapes provided clear evidence that researchers used psychological tactics to persuade reluctant guards to be _ and abusive
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  1. 1. Ethical issues of the study primarily consisted of lack of _ and intervention to limit the abuse of prisoners; and the dubious ability to leave for participants
  2. 3. in 2007, psychologists _ and McFarland ran an experiment of two recreated ads of the Stanford prison experiment were made – one mentioning prison life and one not. The ones who signed up for prison life scored higher on psychological tests for aggressiveness, authoritarianism, Machiavellianism and less on altruism and empathy
  3. 4. The _ was to understand development of norms and effects of roles, labels and social expectations in a simulated prison environment
  4. 5. in 2001, an 8 day experiment conducted by psychologists _ and Haslam known as the BBC Prison Study in which guards were only told to make prison run smoothly and prisoners weren’t humiliated and initially incentivised to maintain good behaviour
  5. 9. although participants were all tested to be “normal” and _, there is bias as it was a self-selected group who chose to partake in a study about prison life
  6. 14. The conclusion Zimbardo drew from the Stanford Prison Experiment is also likely exaggerated due to _ interfering factors such as the personality of participants and researcher influence