Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research? (The experimenters did not take this issue lightly, although the Slide Show may sound somewhat matter-of-fact about the events and experiences that occurred).
It was not ethical to do the study
.
What were the ethical problems with the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The Stanford Prison Experiment would not be allowed to be conducted today due to the various violations of ethics including
depriving participants of the right to withdraw, informed consent, debriefing and the protection from physical and psychological harm
.
Was the Stanford experiment ethical?
The study has received many ethical criticisms, including lack of fully informed consent by participants as Zimbardo himself did not know what would happen in the experiment (it was unpredictable). ... However, this was a breach of the ethics of Zimbardo’s own contract that all of the participants had signed.
Was it ethical to do the prison study in the way that Zimbardo conducted it?
As for the ethics of the experiment, Zimbardo said
he believed the experiment was ethical before it began
but unethical in hindsight because he and the others involved had no idea the experiment would escalate to the point of abuse that it did. ... It’s hard to perceive the whole process,” Zimbardo said.
What did Zimbardo do that was unethical?
So with all this said, I believe that Zimbardo’s prison experiment is unethical
due to its lack of informative material
, lack of protection to the prisoners/guards, poor debriefing of the prisoners and poor training of the guards, and the lead experimenter being a large influencing role in the experiment.
Who was Prisoner 8612?
One of the prisoners (#8612),
Douglas Korpi
, a 22-year-old Berkeley graduate, began to exhibit uncontrollable crying and rage 36 hours into the experiment, described by Zimbardo as “acute emotional disturbance”.
What is a major problem with the original Milgram study?
What is a major problem with the original Milgram study?
Milgram lied to his respondents, making his study borderline unethical
. What is the major flaw in the Asch conformity study? Asch ignored the importance of several factors influencing conformity- race, class, and gender.
What happened to participants in Stanford Prison Experiment?
For six days, half the study’s participants
endured cruel and dehumanizing abuse at the hands of their peers
. At various times, they were taunted, stripped naked, deprived of sleep and forced to use plastic buckets as toilets. Some of them rebelled violently; others became hysterical or withdrew into despair.
What is the main point of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
Q: What was the purpose of the Stanford Prison Experiment? A: The purpose was
to understand the development of norms and the effects of roles, labels, and social expectations in a simulated prison environment
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What is the Stanford Prison Experiment summary?
Stanford Prison Experiment,
a social psychology study in which college students became prisoners or guards in a simulated prison environment
. ... It was intended to measure the effect of role-playing, labeling, and social expectations on behaviour over a period of two weeks.
What was the most serious charge leveled against the Milgram experiment?
One of the more serious charges leveled against Milgram’s paper was the
original sin of social science research: sample bias
.
What happened in the Milgram experiment?
The Milgram experiment(s) on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. ... Participants were led to believe that
they were assisting an unrelated experiment
, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a “learner”.
Is the Milgram experiment accurate?
At the end of the experiment, Burger was left with an obedience rate around the same as the one Milgram had recorded—proving, he said, not only that
Milgram’s numbers had been accurate
, but that his work was as relevant as ever.
Where is Philip Zimbardo now?
Zimbardo is currently an
Emeritus Professor at Palo Alto University
. He is also Emeritus Professor at Stanford University (professor since 1968) and taught previously at Yale, NYU, Columbia University, and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
What was Milgram’s hypothesis?
The hypothesis tested in the Milgram experiment was that,
under the right circumstances, people would follow the directions of an authority figure to the extent of harming or even killing other people
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What was the Milgram shock experiment?
The goal of the Milgram experiment was
to test the extent of humans’ willingness to obey orders from an authority figure
. Participants were told by an experimenter to administer increasingly powerful electric shocks to another individual.
