The Stanford (Zimbardo) Experiment

THE STANFORD EXPERIMENT What happens when you put good people in an evil place? How the environment affect behaviours , attitudes or beliefs of people? Philip Zimbardo was implicated in this questions. Zimvardo pick a prison enviroment as the evil place. Zimbardo get up the basement of Stanford University Psychlogy Department like a prison to avoid trade protection problems. All of the conditions in basement change for essay such as prevails uniform , prisoners overalls, grates , dark cell etc. Zimbardo gave sun-glasses to guards to avoid personel relation amidst guards and prisoners with the barricade eye contact.After the preperation had been completed , Zimbardo choose 21 people with no physically and mental healt issue. These people came after see the newspaper announce. Subjects seperated dickens groups as prisoners and guard randomly. prisoners arrested like a real guilty and their look bandaged so they couldnt recognize where they ar. Firstly Zimbardo tell to guards conditions and rules. The rules argon * Guardians responsible for keep the pattern safe in prison. * If a prisoner escape , The experiment would have been terminated * As the last and nigh important one is no violance to prisoners.First day the subjects of the experiment couldnt correct their references but day by day guards have adapted their roles to a greater extent than Zimbardo expected also prisoners. A few day later guards started to endure sadistic and tendency to physically violence. On the other hand prisoners had worked up problems. There are two key people on individually side Guard John Wayne and captive 8612. John Wayne had so sadictic behaviours and their attraction character motion other guards. Actually, John Wayne play the Hand Luke role in this experiment.John Wayne watched a word-painting called Cool Hand Luke in this movie in that location are a guardian named Hand Luke , John Wayne choose Hand Luke as a role model in this experiment. captive 8612 Th e rebellion leader was captive 8621. He was lead them to rebel against the rules and they hasten barriers with their beds to block guards. Guards vindicate captive 8612 with preventativeing the dark room. After the sticky conditions , captive 8612 decided quiting the experiment and then he gone to Zimbardo. Zimbardo tell him that If you stay in the experiment, I save you from bad behaviors of guards for telleing whatever prisoners do in cells. 612 conf recitationd and when he turn back to the cells tell other prisoners that We nooky not get out of here. And this effect the experiment essentially. prisoner 8612 try to escape with patient role , by the time he adapted the patient role and he had mental problems. After that Zimbardo knock back him with another subject Prisoner 416. When Prisoner 416 join there , he want to get out as soon as possible. Because Prisoner 416 had not adapted the role but e trulybody in prison adapted, and things that happenin in prison seems insan e. Guards tell him that Here is a real prison. and persuade Prisoner 416 to stay in. Prisoner 416 could not endure guards bad behaviour and he start hunger strike. John Wayne persuade other guards about the punisment of Prisoner 416 as a leader. Guards put in black room and punish other prisoners , and they say You would punish because of Prisoner 416. Other prisoners exclude Prisoner 416. Another psychologist Cristina Maslach came to observe the experiment and Maslach questioned its morality , and Zimbardo decided to terminate the experiment before 9 long time earlier CONCLUSIONSThe Stanford experiment ended on six days after it began. Zimbardo called both the guards and prisoners to a meeting and announced that the experiment is over. The experiments results are impressionability and obedience of people when provided with a legitimizing ideologyand social and institutional support. government issue are similar with Milgram experiment. CRITICISM OF EXPERIMENT The guards, prisoners also Zimbardo adapted to their roles to a greater extent completely than expected. One-third of the guards were judged to have exhibited sadistic tendencies. One-five of the Prisoners had emotional problems.Unexpectedly, Zimbardo act a prison manager. This study was cleared by the Ethics Code of the American Psychological Association, showing that experiments on paper can look very different than the way that they play out in reality. The experiment was criticized as unethical and unscientific. The participants were only engaging inrole-playing. In response, Zimbardo claimed that even if there was role-playing initially, participantsinternalizedthese roles as the experiment continued. More directly, though, it has been pointed out that, in contrast to Zimbardos laim that participants were addicted no instructions about how to behave, his briefing of the guards gave them a clear consciousness that they should oppress the prisoners. In this sense the study was an exploration of the effects of compulsive leadership. In line with this, certain guards, such as one know as John Wayne, changed their behavior because of wanting to conform to the behavior that Zimbardo was attempt to elicit. VARIABLES Actually nobody can say the experiment fail because of early on termination. The experiment over before 9 days earlier than plotted but the results are so important as scientific.We have to use Occams razor to get rid of less effective autarkical variables, Some independent variables for Guards result * Prison environment (as an evil place) foul variables * Power (as a Guard) Guard models (like Hand Luke) Moderator * Perfectly prepared prison environment Intervening variable * Losing responsibility Dependent variable * performing Role perfectly Independent variables for Prisoners * Prison environment (as a jam area) * Obedience instinct Moderator Prisoner 8621 say to other prisoners that Noone can come out Intervening variable * Individualization Dependent vari able * Acting Roles and find like a real prisoner ASSESMENT OF THE EXPERIMENT The Stanford Experiment is a psychological experiment. Inputs are people so lots of contaminate variables effect the results. Elimination of contaminate variables processes is so important also a hard thing for the experiment. Zimbardo try to get reliable resolutions like randomization for guard and prisoner groups. But this experiment is an unrepeatable experiment so government agency interval of results had been accept true.