1. How is your article related to psychology?

 
- The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrates the powerful position that the state
of affairs can play in human behavior. Because the guards have been positioned in a
position of power, they started to act in ways they would not normally act in their
regular lives or different situations. It became intended to measure the impact of
role-playing, labeling, and social expectancies on behaviour over a duration of
weeks

2. Does the research suggest a correlational or a causative relationship? If correlation, 

what direction is it? If the research was experimental, what were the independent 
and dependent variables? 
- The Stanford Prison Experiment proved that there is a correlation between an
individual's behavior, and their situation. The main independent variable was role,
meaning when the subjects were assigned to be either prisoners or guards. The
dependent variable was the resulting behaviour.

3. What conclusions have the researchers drawn? 

- The Stanford Prison Experiment discovered how people will with no trouble comply
with the social roles they're anticipated to play, particularly if the roles are as
strongly stereotyped as the ones of the prison guards. Because the guards have been
positioned in a position of power, they started out to act in ways they might not
normally act in their normal lives or different situations.

4. Do you think the results make common sense? 

- I believe that the SPE results did make common sense, because it demonstrated a
situation where anyone can dramatically change when it comes to authority,
whether they’re the one in charge or they’re under that person of authority.

  

5. Is it “good” science? This is not your opinion. (Discuss what information we are given 
about the methodology and whether we know enough to make that call). You must 
comment on one of the following aspects to receive grade credit: sample size, 
implications about causation, experimenter bias, etc. This question is designed to 
make you think about how valid and reliable this data might be and to write critically 
on this topic. 
 - The experiment was considered to be deeply flawed. It was considered unethical.
Zimbardo did not protect prisoners from physical and psychological harm, he
encouraged the prison guards to some of the things they did, and only shut down the
experiment because another psychologist persuaded him to do so.

Source:
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-stanford-prison-experiment-2794995#results-of-the-sta
nford-prison-experiment