Social/ethics Assignment

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Zimbardo’s Prison Simulation Experiment was ethically unjustifiable.

Your essay should be about 3.5 pages long. It should consider each ethical point covered in the British Psychological Society’s guidelines, say whether it is relevant to Zimbardo and why (or why not) and, if it is, say whether Zimbardo contravened it (had the guidelines been in existence at the time). You should conclude the essay by saying whether you support the question statement or not, and why.

Reading:
Cardwell: Ethics chapter
Eysenck and Flanagan: pp225-234, 204-205
Gross: Chapter 48 (available on 24 hour loan from the Psychology Department Library)
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