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A 3 page paper that reports some of the highlights of the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1973. The writer demonstrates how prisoners being obedient and how both prisoners and guards were conforming. The second part of the paper discusses personal space and territoriality. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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At the time, there were many reports of prison guards being brutal to prisoners and Dr. Zimbardo wanted to know if that behavior had to do with sadistic personalities or
if it was the result of the prison environment itself (McLeod, 2008). What made this experiment worse than the Milgram studies later was the people were actually physically and emotionally
harmed. The experiment was scheduled to last for two weeks. It was closed off on the 6th day. Zimbardo had a mock prison constructed in the basement of the
university. It was just like prison and because the volunteer prisoners were taken there with hoods on, they soon began to believe it was a real prison. Conformity was prevalent
as soon as most prisoners began referring to themselves as their prison numbers rather than their names. Thats what the volunteer guards called them (McLeod, 2008). Actions against prisoners began
at intake with humiliation and continued to get worse from there. It was similar to a mob mindset. Prisoners obeyed guards otherwise they could be assigned nasty jobs or
get ridiculed and given distasteful or boring pointless jobs to do. Prisoners were tormented any time of day or night (McLeod, 2008). Some turned on their fellow-prisoners trying to avoid
the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedience (McLeod, 2008). One prisoner had to be released after
36 hours because he had uncontrollable bursts of anger, screaming, and crying (McLeod, 2008). The prisoners were obedient. They conformed to the prison lifestyle. Conformity refers to the tendency to
change ones perceptions, behaviors, or opinions that are consistent with group norms (Frostburg State University, 2012). The prisoners really felt like prisoners and so, behaved the way prisoners would
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