https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05 en-us 2018-05-08 22:46:19 UTC 2025-10-08 18:36:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Growing.png Ieesha https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259106462 Research question - Can personality change?
Hypothesis - It is hypothesised that personality can change and it changes due to environmental factors.]]> 2018-05-08 22:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259106462 Ieesha https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259106634 Personality - The combination of characteristics that form an individuals distinctive character.
The Lucifer Effect - Transformation of human character in which ordinary, even good people begin to engage in bad deeds.]]> 2018-05-08 22:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259106634 Ieesha https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259107157 Title - The Stanford Prison Experiment
Aim - To investigate how people's personality would change in response to power.
Procedure - A group of young men volunteered to take part in an experiment where they would be placed into a simulated prison and observed for 1-2 weeks. The volunteers were told that they needed to fully take on the role that they were given, prisoner or guard.
Results - After a few days some 'prisoners' were starting to show signs of depression and mental illness so the experiment had to be cut short after just six days. This experiment proved that personality can change over time by showing how the 'guards' came into the experiment people, who's friends would describe as good and kind but morphed into people who hurt and abused the 'prisoners' mentally and physically. This experiment also displays the Lucifer Effect because due to the situation and the power that they were given, the 'guards' turned into perpetrators of evil. ]]> 2018-05-08 23:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259107157 Ieesha https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259109299 Title - Blue eyes-Brown eyes
Aim - To investigate what discrimination can do to people.
Procedure - A teacher divided her primary school class by eye colour - brown eyes and blue eyes. On the first day, the blue-eyed students were made to feel superior by being told they were smarter, nicer, neater and better than the brown-eyed students. They were also given privileges such as taking longer recess and being first in the lunch line. While the blue-eyed students were made to feel superior, the brown-eyed students were made to feel inferior by being forced to wear collars around their necks and their behaviour and performance being ridiculed. On the second day, the roles were reversed with the blue-eyed children being made to feel inferior. The experiment was repeated another two times in the next two years after the first experiment was executed and the results were the same.
Results - On both days, the children that were in the designated 'inferior' group acquired the look and behaviour of genuinely lesser students, not achieving as well in tests and other work. On the other hand, the students that were in the designated 'superior' group, who were described as sweet and tolerant before the experiment, became mean seemed to enjoy discriminating against the 'lesser' group. This experiment also proves the Lucifer Effect by showing how students who were too young to understand discrimination changed from being sweet and kind children to mean-spirited ones.]]> 2018-05-08 23:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259109299 Ieesha https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259112013 The evidence that has been gathered supports the hypothesis fully by proving that personality can change based on the environment that the subject in placed in.
Limitations - A potential limitation for the prison experiment is that it did not go for the full 1-2 weeks that it was planned to go for due to 'prisoners' showing signs of mental illness. This could have impacted the experiment because there could have been some information that was missed due to the short length of the experiment. A potential limitation for the Blue eyes-Brown eyes experiment could be that the experiment was only tested on young children. This could have impacted the experiment by giving us limited results that could only relate to children of that age group.
Bias - The prison experiment is most likely not bias because the researchers did not have a clear theory of what they wanted to see in the experiment so they had to reason to be bias. The Blue eyes-Brown eyes experiment could have been bias because the teacher may have wanted to teach people about the dangers of discrimination so she may have been bias towards the final outcome.
Sources of error - A source of error that could have impacted the prison experiment is one of the 'guards'. one of the 'guards' said that before he went into the experiment, he planned to treat the 'prisoners' terribly to make sure that the researchers got information to work with. There are no sources of error that could have impacted the result of the Blue eyes-Brown eyes experiment besides that fact that the experimenter could have been bias.]]> 2018-05-08 23:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259112013 Ieesha https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259115902 It has been found that personality can change dramatically depending on the kind of environment the person is placed in. The hypothesis has been supported by the evidence gathered.
Recommendations - For source one, the experiment could have been done for a longer period of time if the mental health of the 'prisoners' were taken into consideration more during the making of the experiment. This would ensure more accurate results. For source two, the experiment could have been done with a wider range of age groups and the students could be from different schools. This would ensure a wider spectrum which would increase accuracy.
Implications - Correctional facilities can look at the evidence gathered to create programs to change criminal's personality if needed. So instead of locking them up for the rest of their lives we can teach them to be better people and send them back off into the world. The findings also indicate that we could teach children to be good people from a young age, this would prevent people from being in correctional facilities in the first place.
Conclusions - Society has the potential to change drastically if we implement ways to better people's personality from when we are young until we grow old. People can change so we should rethink our correctional program and try to implement ways to help the people get on the right path again and live their lives properly.]]> 2018-05-09 00:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259115902 Ieesha https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259117705 Voluntary participation - The prison experiment was ethical in the sense because the way the participants were recruited was by placing an ad in the classifieds and the participants reached out themselves and chose to volunteer.
Withdrawal rights - Although they did not say that the participants were not allowed to leave, they did not make it clear enough that they were, so some of the volunteers thought that they were not allowed to leave in the prison experiment.
Informed consent procedures - The students in the Blue eyes-Brown eyes experiment were most likely not aware that they were part of the experiment due to the fact that they were so young. The parents were not informed which raises an issue of ethics.
Confidentiality - This was followed because no information was leaked about any of the participants without consent in both experiments.]]> 2018-05-09 00:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Ieesha/qupu82tabu05/wish/259117705