the Stanford Prison Study

This assignment relates to the Stanford Prison Study, which was discussed in Chapter 3.  Locate information on the Stanford Prison Experiment website (http://www.prisonexp.org/setting-up). Watch the slide show.  Write an essay in which you answer each of the following:

• In your own words, describe the experiment.   

• What type of experimental, quasi-experimental, or nonexperimental design was used?  Explain. 

• What were the findings of the experiment?  Do you find them to be valid?  Are the findings generalizable?  Explain.

• Did the Stanford Prison Experiment violate any ethical issues in experimental research?  Explain.