Ethical Paper Stanford Experiment

Ethical Paper Stanford Experiment

After watching the Stanford Prison Experiment documentary, please address the following questions:

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1) If you were a guard, what type would you have become? How sure are you?

2) What prevented “good guards” from objecting or countermanding the orders from tough or bad guards?

3) If you were a prisoner, would you have been able to endure the experience? What would you have done differently than those subjects did? If you were imprisoned in a “real” prison for five years or more, could you take it?

Ethical Paper Stanford Experiment

4) Why did our prisoners try to work within the arbitrary prison system to effect a change in it (e.g., setting up a Grievance Committee), rather than trying to

dismantle or change the system through outside help?

5) What is identity? Is there a core to your self-identity independent of how others define you? How difficult would it be to remake any given person into someone with a new identity?

6) Do you think that kids from an urban working-class environment would have broken down emotionally in the same way as our middle-class prisoners? Why? What about women?

7) After the study, how do you think the prisoners and guards felt when they saw each other in the same civilian clothes again and saw their prison reconverted to a basement laboratory hallway?

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8) Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research?

9) If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done this study? Would you have terminated it earlier? Would you have conducted a follow-up

study?

10) How did learning about this study impact you on both personal and professional levels?