Hello tutors. I need assistance for my study. So, The experiment we…

Question Answered step-by-step Hello tutors. I need assistance for my study. So, The experiment we… Hello tutors. I need assistance for my study. So, The experiment we come up is based on the STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT. In this experiment, you would like to investigate whether the fake roles of the participants as teachers and students will have changes in their behavior inside the mock classroom.  In this experiment, instead of prisoners and guards like Stanford Experiment, we changed the roles into TEACHERS AND STUDENTS. The 1st Group will be the participants that will portray as teachers. The 2nd group will be the participants that will portray as students. The participants will proceed in the designated area for the experiment proper (the mock classroom). Then, we urge both parties to portray the given role to them and observe the changes in their behavior within a week (5hrs/day) of the experiment.  MY QUESTION IS: Will there be ethical considerations in this study? Explain. (I will provide my answer of this question at the last part but my answer is related to STANFORD EXPERIMENT, not this study)  THE PROCEDURES OF THE STUDY:  Before the experiment proper began, the participants were told that they would be assigned to play the role of teacher or students in a study of school life, that they would observe and film, and that they would be expected to participate for the full duration of the study.  The 10 participants were randomly assigned to either the teacher group or the student group using  a random number generator to ensure that any differences found between the groups were attributable rather than a confounding variable.  Next, the experimenters Instruct each group. The role who will become teachers were given no specific instruction or training on how to be a teacher. Instead they were free, within limits, to do whatever they thought was necessary to maintain rules in school in order to command the respect of the students but to avoid physical violence and strictly monitor the students.  Meanwhile, the experimenters drew up a list of rules to the students that were required to follow.  The participants will proceed in the designated area for the experiment proper. They were issued a uniform and referred to by their fake identity (the researchers will give them fake names to mask their identity). The use of this was a way to make them feel anonymous. The experimenters Urge both parties to portray the given role to them and observe the changes in their behavior within a week (5hrs/day) of the experiment. During the experiment, the fake students and fake teachers will play their role like how the classroom setting in real life works. (this is similar to the fake prisoners and guards inside the mock prison in Stanford experiment)  After the experiment, the experimenters will collect the data they gathered when they observed the participants.The change on the behavior of the participants will be assessed by behavior rating scale.  After the data collection, the experimenters will now analyze and conclude a synthesis of the data.  —- EXAMPLE / ADDITIONAL NOTE: Do the STANFORD EXPERIMENT have ethical considerations? Explain. There were many concerns raised about the lack of ethics demonstrated in the StanfordPrison Experiment. Though the premise itself seemed rather harmless, just a role-playing simulation (most of the volunteers just wanted a summer job before heading back to school), it was quickly realized that the way this experiment was run created the reality and toil of being in an actual prison. The blame for this can be placed completely on Dr. Zambardo’s shoulders. Due to a lack of foresight on his part, Zambardo instated himself as not only the prison superintendent, but also the psychological researcher. This led to the demise of the morality of the experiment, as these two positions encourage contrary mindsets. On one hand, you have the prison superintendent, who must be forceful to the prisoners and come up with the overall plan on the jail, and on the other hand you have the researcher who must stay emotionally detached, able to take notes from the outside looking in. Since Zambardo was both of these, his emotional response to the prisoners rebelling and misbehaving polluted the unbiased, scientific part of his mind. He thought that the prisoners were purposely “out to get him”, and as such did not realize soon enough when he and his guards crossed the moral line. Because there was no 3rd party observer, able to view the experiment with an unbiased opinion and stop the experiment when necessary, this experiment went on for longer than it should have, resulting in psychological and physical damage to the prisoners. Zimbardo himself, when reflecting on the experiment from an observational, 3rd person perspective realized that the experiment was unethical “because people suffered and others were allowed to inflict pain and humiliation on their fellows over an extended period of time”. As well, he said “although we ended the study a week earlier than planned, we did not end it soon enough”, showing that he realized that he did have a lapse of judgement on the ethical standpoint of this experiment. It was not right to put the subjects of this experiment through so much emotional and physical toil. To paraphrase one of the prisoners, the experience to him was not a role-playing experiment, but instead it was a real prison that was not run by the state but instead by psychologists. Obviously, this is morally wrong, as it is essentially putting an innocent person into a jail. Even though the subjects did volunteer themselves, they expected a simulation that was within the moral confines of a civilized, developed society. Instead, what they got was a prison environment, comparable but not to the same extent as the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where detainees where physically and psychologically assaulted by US Army Personnel, to the point where some were close to death. Clearly, both this case and the Stanford Prison experiment are highly unethical. Though the information gained from this experiment was undoubtedly beneficial to the understanding of the human psyche, it was at the cost of the sanity of the volunteers. These were individuals who had done nothing wrong, but were punished to the same extent as people who had committed serious crimes. Thus, it was not right to subject these people to the suffering that they did go through.          Social Science Psychology PSYCHOLOGY PSY210L Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)