Essays on Experimental Psychology

Amongst many human behavior studies ever done, a very famous one, was one on obedience in psychology, the Milgram experiment. This was done by the psychologist Stanley Milgram, an experiment in which he focused on the complex conflict between obedience to authorities and the extent...

Mark Twain brilliantly once said: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Putting the philosophical interpretation aside, is it possible for a past incident to happen once again? On a bigger and more sensitive topic, is it possible for the Holocaust to happen again? ...

Society gives preference to some personalities over others.  It expects everyone to excel in studies, have high resilience, be a good parent, have stable mental health,  live a stress-free / aggression-free life, etc. Traits that are acknowledged and praised by people are more likely to...

Abstract In recent history, Hitler was able to confirm many people into believing as he did: the Aryan race was superior and those who were not Aryan needed to be exterminated, particularly the Jews. It makes one wonder how Hitler was able to get not...

People who work in organizations tend to have their behaviors slightly or drastically influenced to achieve the organization’s goals. This situation is shown in the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments. The Milgram experiment took place at Yale University where forty male volunteers were selected to be...

It was early on the Sunday morning of August 17, 1971, when the Stanford Study Experiment first commenced. A college student was confused as he heard sirens blaring and a police officer placed him under arrest and drove him towards Stanford University. The “prison” made...

In the movie entitled “Stanford Prison Experiment” the experiment aimed to study the psychological effects of prison life, and students played the roles of guards and prisoners. Zimbardo structured the experiment to make everything seems as realistic as possible. The students cast as prisoners and...

Environment and roles a person assumes tend to have an impact on their thinking and action. A person who is humiliated continuously is likely to become helpless and develop massive levels of submission. On the other side, a person who is given various powers to...

Introduction The mental idea of the Stanford Prison investigation was that Zimbardo and his partners were keen on seeing whether the mercilessness among gatekeepers in America and penitentiaries was because of the twisted characters of the watchmen or had more to do with the jail...

If we refer to criticism we have to take in count that it practice the judging of something or someone. When a new major discover is released or an event of great magnitude occurs it is expected to be criticized in many aspects. We can...

Does bad influence impact humanity and good intentions? In the Stanford prison experiment, civilians were asked to play either an officer or prisoner role for research purposes. Being in an evil place, took a toll on the prisoners (civilians), being treated harsh by the officers...

There were many academic experiments performed to try and get an understanding of human nature. The way humans act, and what they do is a very strange thing. Human nature really refers to the patterns of behavior that are typical of our species or our...

In the movie entitled, “Stanford Prison Experiment“, the experiment aimed to study the psychological effects of prison life, and students played the roles of guards and prisoners. Zimbardo structured the experiment to make everything seems as realistic as possible. The students cast as prisoners and...

The studies evaluated in this paper all correspond to the Stroop effect, either by directly studying the effect or by determining the mechanism through which it occurs. The Stroop Effect is experienced when a written word differs from the color it is written in, and...

In this study we investigated the relationship between reaction times and congruent or incongruent conditions. The Stroop effect lays on the principle of response competition, when a stimulus elicits a response that inhibits the achievement of the correct one. Our hypothesis, based on this understanding,...

Introduction Considering the stroop effect, automaticity, and the different types of attention- their relationships can help researchers better understand the cognitive processes activated in order to correctly identify the desired stimulus. In recent years, researchers have dedicated time studying attention and the different types, focused...

Morality vs Evil Nature Psychology is the way that human beings are able to get a deeper understanding of each other. The people that study psychology experience astonishing outcomes of the ways of mankind. Dr. Phillip Zimbardo is a psychologist known for his research on...

The Stanford prison experiment The Stanford prison experiment was an experiment that had the aim of exploring the impact that power can have psychologically. This idea was looked at through the relationship between prisoners and prison officers. It was conducted at Stanford University between the...