Philosophies and Theories in Psychology: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Perspectives and Theories in Psychology
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Department of Psychology, Purdue University Global
PS124: Introduction to Psychology
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Philosophies and Theories in Psychology
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the critical study stories present in the literature. Zimbardo recognized that he looked more like a prison superintendent than a counselor during the experiment. Later on, he said the guards had been poorly behaved by the "physical and environmental powers" experiment. Others suggested, however, that the initial publicity attracted people inclined to authoritarianism. A few decades back, a new orchestrated study recorded in the British Broadcasting Corporation series "The Experiment" was the unique challenge to Stanford results (Quesenberry, 2018). The BBC's ridiculous prisoners proved more affirmative than Zimbardo. The experiment was dubbed "analysis of what happens when a strong government introduces dictatorship" in the British investigation. The Experiment of Stanford Prison was recognized beyond academia. It was the recognized basis for Das Experiment, a German film that has been re-created as The Experiment (Quesenberry, 2018). With Zimbardo's active involvement, the Stanford Prison Experiment was developed, and the dramatic film tracked events more closely.
The research findings show the most behavior changes, positive or negative, in a person-centered interpretation of human behavior, to the internal dispositional characteristics of people. In genes and disposition, behavioral traits, personal pathologies, and virtues, the general thought direct behavior influences can be identified. By comparison, a situation-centric approach focuses on variables beyond the client and the behavioral environment in which people work. While human behavior is often a feature of the interaction of the individual and the environment, social psychologists in many areas of psychology and the general public have drawn attention to the attributional distortions that overestimate the significance of determining situational factors. The Stanford Prison Experiment expanded this study to show that social influences had a surprisingly profound effect on average, stable participants' behavior (Quesenberry, 2018). They tried to decide which prison settings are created for individuals who are not confused with what people take to jails. They tried to detect how much abuse and anti-social activity often encountered in prisons could be attributed to "bad apples" in prisons or to "bad barriers" (the prisons themselves), which could corrupt even average, decent people's behavior. Almost all other prisoners behaved as zombies, fully following the guard's demeaning orders; the misery of the prisoners was due to their sense of impotence brought on by the guards who started a study (Kulig, Pratt & Cullen, 2017). The study's most important results are: many normal and wholesome mock prisoners had t...