Psychology Observation Essay

In this class, we have studied why somebody does what they do. The study of psychology is to attempt to put those pieces together. This question asks what steps should we take to protect human subjects? When the study begins, what steps do you think they took to begin with? None. Although, presently we attempt to protect feelings and future issues. But how did we get to today, but not taking chances.
Before, subjects were given LDS. The researchers knew that this drug was dangerous back then. How can the long-term effects of any study be learned unless some kind of activity took place? One example was given in our class was about the Stafford Prison experiment by Professor Zimbardo. There are people that feel that this experiment was too this or too that. However, honesty, what prison have you not heard issues between the guards and prisoners. Both sides put the envelope as to what is allowed or not. …show more content…
From the videos, he allowed himself with the situational elements to believe that he was the warden. At this point, he could have had someone else oversee the day to day activities and stay to influence the guards the way he did. He allowed himself to become emotion when the volunteers prisoners what to leave. He originally scheduled this experiment to run for two weeks but felt that he must stop early for ethic reasons.
The video follows up and interviews each people who took part of this experiment. All on the camera claimed that this did not affect them or felt that there would be long term issues. However, in their subconscious, everyone’s perception about prisons and even authority type figures have been affected in one way or another. The result of this experiment, helped other see the issues of semi-realistic type situations. Therefore, there was more positive outcome of this experiment; not only to the guard to prison roles but for further experiments to