M6A1

The Stanford Prison Experiment

On the basis of your research on the Stanford Prison Experiment, share your response to the following questions:

• What is the Stanford Prison Experiment? Describe it.
• Would you expect such an experiment to be allowed to proceed today? Why or why not?
• How would you proceed, if you were to create an experiment that  seeks to test the same hypothesis as for the Stanford Prison Experiment?
• What changes would you make in order to protect the safety of the participants?
• Were the researchers able to learn anything despite being forced to abandon the experiment early?
• Do you agree that there were ethical problems with the study or are  critics making too much of it? Analyze the situation and support it with  rationale.