Choice 1: Your textbook discusses Stanley Milgram's famous social psychology experiment. Here is a video clip that contains some of the original...

Choice 1: 

Your textbook discusses Stanley Milgram's famous social psychology experiment.

Here is a video clip that contains some of the original footage of Milgram's experiment.

http://youtu.be/fCVlI-_4GZQ

For this assignment, please answer the following four questions.....

1) What did Milgram find out - what important thing did we learn about social behavior? 

2) What were the ethical implications of the study (what might be considered unethical and why - make sure to keep in mind what you learnt about the ethical guidelines of research)?

3) How can Milgram's findings be applied to real world situations? Give an example.  

4) What are is your overall impression of the research? Any other comments?

Choice 2:

Another famous experiment is the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo. View the trailer for the Stanford Prison Experiment documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKW_MzREPp4.  Finally,  go to the slide show on the Stanford Prison Experiment at: http://www.prisonexp.org/psychology/1. 

After going through the slides (it is somewhat lengthy):

1) Please go to: http://www.prisonexp.org/discussion-questions and select a discussion question to answer.  Please try to answer a question that is different from your classmates.

Also, please answer the following questions:

2) What were the ethical implications of the study (what might be considered unethical and why - make sure to keep in mind what you learnt about the ethical guidelines of research)?

3) What are your thoughts about whether or not this study should have been conducted?