The Stanford Prison Experiment
How does Zimbardo explain the psychology of abuse at Abu Ghraib?
Dr. Zimbardo has argued that
the soldiers at Abu Ghraib were stellar, all-American soldiers whose histories and personalities could not explain their abusive behavior
. But an open-minded assessment of these soldiers reveals that some, at least, were not the all-American boy or girl next door.
The same social psychological processes
–deindividualization, anonymity of place, dehumanization, role-playing and social modeling, moral disengagement and group conformity–
that acted in the Stanford Prison Experiment were at play at Abu Ghraib, Zimbardo argued.
What did we learn from Abu Ghraib?
He traced Abu Ghraib's
crimes to pressure from “military-intelligence teams
, which included CIA officers and linguists and interrogation specialists from private defense contractors,” urging the production—and fast—of crucial information from US captives in Iraq.
What did Zimbardo do in psychology?
Zimbardo spent decades studying and
researching cult behavior and mind control
, and he testified to the power of situational pressure and the events at the Abu Ghraib prison. Zimbardo served as President of the American Psychological Association in 2002, and he has been professor emeritus at Stanford since 2003.
What happened to the Abu Ghraib soldiers?
Eleven U.S. soldiers have been
convicted of crimes stemming from detainee abuse
at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq: … Cardona was sentenced to 90 days of hard labor with no prison time, a reduced in rank one grade to specialist and forfeiture of $600 a month for 12 months.
Which type of persuasion involves encouraging a person to agree to a small favor or to buy a small item only to later request a larger favor or purchase of a larger item?
Using the foot-in-the-door technique,
the persuader
gets a person to agree to bestow a small favor or to buy a small item, only to later request a larger favor or purchase of a bigger item.
Why do good people do bad things?
Cognitive dissonance
.
It's one of the strongest psychological forces driving human behavior. When people who feel they are good do bad things, cognitive dissonance makes them ignore this behavior because they can't tolerate the inconsistency between their behavior and their beliefs.
Why is Zimbardo's experiment unethical?
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 happened at Abu Ghraib in Iraq?
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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.
Where do soldiers sleep in Iraq?
Only a lucky few of the Army forces bed down each night in palaces like the ones in
Tikrit, Baghdad and Mosul
. Far more make their homes at old Iraqi military bases, the teeming tenements of military life in the Middle East.
Why did US invade Iraq?
In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq
vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein
. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent insurgency arose, the war lost public support. Saddam was captured, tried, and hanged and democratic elections were held.
Who Exposed Abu Ghraib?
Joe Darby, a reserve soldier for the U.S. forces
, exposed the violations ongoing at Abu Ghraib prison in January 2004. The photographs were handed to him on a CD by Charles Graner – after seeing the images, it took him 3 weeks to hand the photos in.
