DIRECTIONS: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WITH AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH (5 SENTENCES) FOR EACH QUESTION.
1. What police procedures are used during arrests, and how do these procedures lead people to feel confused, fearful, and dehumanized?
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?
4. Do you think that kids from an urban working class environment would have broken down emotionally in the same way as did our middle-class prisoners? Why? What about women?
5. 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?
6. 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? Was it ethical to do this study?
7. Knowing what this research says about the power of prison situations to have a corrosive effect on human nature, what recommendations would you make about changing the correctional system in our country?
Stanford Prison Experiment video can be found via YouTube. To answer the 7 questions.
