ENGL 112 Lecture Notes - Philip Zimbardo
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The final exam will be an essay type question relating to the course package. If you are told you cannot have it, you want it more. Trying to recreate the psychological experience of being a prisoner. Determine how prisoners become prisoner and guards become guards. In a prison it is difficult to determine if there are psychological issues or personality defects etc. that can not be controlled in a real prison. Prisoners that populated the prison had gone through psychological evaluations and weeded out people with psychological issues (only normal participants were accepted) Wanted to determine if the prison will produce changes in the people: groups were composed of homogenous people (same types of people) Zimbardo was incorporated/taking a role within his own experiment. Prisons and concentration camps in this article have been connected (similarities) Dehumanisation and immasculinity was trying to be reproduces in the prisoners in the study.
