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Unit VI Assignment
The Stanford Prison Experiment: Ethical Reflections and Personal Insight
Assignment Description:
After viewing the Stanford Prison Experiment documentaries, you will complete a reflective essay that critically evaluates the psychological and ethical dimensions of the study. You’ll also connect these observations to your personal identity, professional ethics, and your role as a future human services or social work professional.
Required Viewing:
1.
Stanford Prison Experiment: Meet the Psychologist Behind the ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’
2.
The Stanford Prison Experiment – Documentary
Assignment Instructions:
Using
APA 7th edition formatting, write a paper that addresses the following questions in
essay format (not numbered responses). Your paper should integrate key concepts from the course, demonstrate self-reflection, and include at least one scholarly source in addition to the videos.
Content Guidelines – Please Address the Following in Your Essay:
1. If you were a
guard, what type would you have become? How confident are you in that assessment?
2. Why didn’t the “good guards” intervene against the actions of the more aggressive guards?
3. If you were a
prisoner, how do you think you would have responded to the experience? What might you have done differently? Would you be able to endure a real prison sentence of 5 years or more?
4. Why did the prisoners attempt to work
within the prison system (e.g., setting up a Grievance Committee) instead of seeking help from outside or rejecting the system entirely?
5. What is
identity? Do you believe there is a “core self” that exists regardless of how others treat or label you? How easily can a person’s identity be altered?
6. Do you think
working-class youth from an urban background would have responded the same way as the middle-class college students? How might
women have reacted differently in the same study?
7. What do you imagine the
participants felt afterward, when they returned to civilian life and saw the basement laboratory restored to a regular hallway?
8. Was this study
ethical? Was it justifiable to trade participant suffering for the knowledge gained?
9. If you were the lead researcher, would you have
conducted this study? Would you have terminated it sooner? Would you have followed up with additional research?
10. Finally, how has learning about this study
impacted you personally and professionally? What ethical lessons will you carry into your work in human services?
Formatting Requirements:
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Length: 750–1000 words (approximately 3–4 pages)
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Font/Spacing: Times New Roman, 12-point, double-spaced, 1” margins
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APA Style: Include title page, in-text citations, and reference page
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Sources:
· Cite both video sources
· Include at least
one additional scholarly source (e.g., peer-reviewed article or textbook)
Submission Instructions:
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Due Date: [Insert Date]
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Submission Format: Upload as a Word or PDF file to the assignment link in Canvas
CSWE Competency Alignment:
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Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior
Analyzes ethical decision-making and professional responsibilities in research.
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Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice
Reflects on identity, social roles, and individual variation in response to institutional systems.
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Competency 3: Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
Evaluates the treatment of research participants through a human rights lens.
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Competency 4: Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice
Critically examines the relationship between social research and ethical implications for practice.
Here is the Textbook you can use as a scholarly review, or you may choose your own:
Text book : Issues and ethics in the Helping Professions 11th edition
Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Core, Cindy Corey published by Cengage
