Identify any potential ethical problems. Be sure to explain WHY these are ethica
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Identify any potential ethical problems. Be sure to explain WHY these are ethical problems o Pretend you are a member of an IRB. Would you approve ofthis study? Why or why not? a 1. Male college students were randomly assigned the role of prisoner or guard in a fake prison. Zimbardo was interested in seeing if prisoners and guards were "certain types of people, or if somehow the role of prisoner or guard elicits certain behaviors. Prisoner were "arrested" at their homes by real police officers while neighbors looked on. They were brought to the police station, fingerprinted, and deloused. They were to spend two weeks locked up in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford University. The experiment was ended a ter 6 days. Some of the experiences of the prisoners in those six days included Being forced to do pushups and other calisthenics for hours out of the day Being woken up at night for "head counts Sleeping without blankets at night Spending the night in solitary confinement (a closet) due to not eating sausages that had rolled around on the floor Being forced to urinate and defecate in a bucket in their cell rather than in a restroom Being told that they could not leave. 1 Zimbardo, P. G. (1973). On the ethics of intervention in human psychological research 2Explanation / Answer
1. Zimbardo’s prison experiment violate several ethical considerations:
If I was a member of the IRB, I would definitely not approve of this experiment, considering that it violates and compromises multiple number of ethical guidelines.
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