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Read this research article and make two pages slides, in the two page slides should noting the following (Please try to provide as more information on the slides):

1) Note the conclusion that was claimed.

2) Evaluate the conclusion. Is their argument convincing?

1. To what do you attribute the pathological behavior which emerged in both guards and prisoners to their "dispositions," to the "situation"

or to the "transaction"?

2. What form of power did the guards use, the prisoners, the staff? How was this different from the "power" that these middle-class intellectuals typically rely upon? Consider the "joys" of arbitrary power.

3. Do you think lower class, ghetto kids would have reacted in the same emotional way as did those prisoners who broke down? Why?

4. In George Jackson's Soledad letters he describes an emotional control training he was attempting to impose on himself to cut off feeling
anything . Why would anyone want to do this? In what other situations does this emotional flattening occur? Compare it with Prisoner 416's
statement of becoming distant from "the person who volunteered me for this experiment."

5. What is identity ? Is there a core to your self-identity independent of how others define you? How difficult would it be to remake any
given person into a new identity, given unlimited resources?

6. Reflect upon the extent to which your behavior is governed by rules both explicit ones and implicit expectations. How are they transmitted?
If there is a rule governing behavior what do you get for obeying the rule? [Ans. Nothing usually, since it is expected]. And what do you get for not obeying? [Ans. Punishment]; why then in mos t situations of power , authority, institutional control does behavior modification rarely follow Skinnerian principles of positive reinforcement?

7. The state of being psychologically imprisoned is more pervasive than we acknowledge; steel bars and concrete walls are physical symbols
of the prisons we construct in our minds for ourselves and those we force others into. If prisons are seen as forms of control which
limit individual freedom of action, of liberty, of personal growth and experience--then discuss the prisons we create through racism,
sexism, agism, poverty, middle-class hang-ups, and other of our insidious devices. Extend your discussion to focus on: a) the
illusion of prison created in many marriages where one spouse becomes "guard," while the other is "prisoner"; b) the illusion of prison
created in neurosis where the one person becomes the "prisoner" who is told h e/she is inadequate, helpless, hopeless, etc. and is thus
constrained by his/her own personal guard.

8. If you were a "guard" which of the 3 guard types would you have become? How sure are you?

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 5 years or more, could you take it?

9. If you were the experimenter in charge would you: study; a) have done this study: b) terminated it earlier; c) let it run the full two weeks; d) conduct a follow-up?

Related to the above is the central issue of the ethics involved in such research--the suffering experienced by the participants pitted
against the personal value to them of this unique experience and the social value of the results of such research. (The experimenters did
not, and do not, take this issue lightly, although in the narration we have tried to sound matter-of-fact about the events and experiences
that occurred).

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