what is the intent of the experiment?why was it conducted?from a sociological perspetive,expain the outcome.Based on the current ethics of social science resaerch,how would such an experiment be regard today,and why?
2007-03-27 09:40:50 · 4 answers · asked by seun A 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I think the goal of this experiment was to observe the social behaviour depending on the status in a group. Zimbardo had to stop the experiment because the group that had to act as prison guards started taking themselves way to seriously: they were becoming cocky and even aggressive in some cases toward the prisoners. The group that had to act as prisoners was getting depressed and anxious. For ethical reasons, they had to stop the experiment.
Social behaviours are hard to understand, from an individual point of view. In this specific case, Zimbardo never thought this experiment would go so wrong. Because for ethical reasons, if he'd known, he wouldn't and couldn't have done the experiment.
By myself, in my living room, I think to myself that I could have never taken myself seriously being in that experiment, but living it, in a group is different: you cannot know how you will react until you've really been through this kind of situation.
Today, with Zimbardo's results, we know we could not reproduce such an experiment. For ethical reasons of course: you cannot experiment on someone (or a group) if you think there will or might be negative effects on them, and if there are negative effects that you really couldn't predict, you have to give your subjects the psychological help during and after the experimental treatment.
2007-03-27 13:59:46 · answer #1 · answered by Andrine 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was interested in how much of our behaviour is determined by the social roles we occupy. The study indicated that they play a huge part, even Zimbardo became too engrossed in his role as prison warden to see that the experiment needed to be stopped. It wouldn't be repeated today because of ethical issues of distress and deception.
2007-03-29 06:05:35 · answer #2 · answered by Snake eyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
area of the human survival mechanism is to evolve to variations in our environments. the students were presented with a pseudo-detention center surroundings and the 'guards' were challenged by technique of the prisoners, so that they took on the jobs of genuine existence guards. became this really unpredicted? It became a lesser celebration of the diversities in behaviour of in the different case non violent persons in a time of warfare or civil unrest. The animal interior of lurks under a very skinny pores and skin!
2016-12-02 22:03:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the previous answer is very correct. Zimbardo wanted to see how people acted with their roles. He split the group into prisoners and prison guards. The prison guards started abusing the prisoners and the prisoners felt helpless and didn't fight back.
The experiment shows that people act according to their various roles within their society. Our behavior is a product of our environment.
2007-03-27 16:02:33 · answer #4 · answered by heathermagoo13 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋