​​​ Consider the police procedures which make arrestees feel confused, fearful, and dehumanized? When a person is arrested there are procedures that need to be followed by the arresting officer. These procedures include apprehending the suspect, telling their basic rights, search and finally detention. When apprehending a suspect the reasons for that person's arrest must be disclosed. During the Stanford prison experiment although the arrestees knew that they were being arrested for the experiment the subjects had a sense of shock as they were arrested. And the subjects were felling ashamed, as they were arrested in front of their neighbors. After being arrest the suspects are taken to a police station and the suspects are strip searched. During this process the suspects are stripped naked. This humiliates the suspect. During the Stanford prison experiment the suspect was stripped naked. 'Each prisoner was systematically searched and stripped naked. He was then deloused with a spray, to convey our belief that he may have germs or lice'. (Philip G. Zimbadro, 1999-2014) due to this procedure the subjects were humiliated. The police follow the same procedure of strip search which humiliates the suspects. The suspects then would be transferred to the detention facilities during which they might be in a van without any view of outside which would create a sense of fear. Discussion 2 What are the effects of living in an environment (a prison cell or prison) with no clocks? No view of the outside world and minimal sensory stimulation? A person in an environment with no contact with the outside world would face the problems of mental breakdown, loss of sense of time and physical disorders. During the Stanford experiment a subject started acting crazy just after 36 hours 'the subject #8612 then began to act "crazy," to scream, to curse, to go into a rage that seemed out of control. It took quite a while before we became convinced that he was really suffering and that we had to release him.' (Philip G. Zimbadro, 1999-2014) this proves that the person would mentally break if a person is put in a situation stated in the di9scussion. If a person is put in to a detention facility with no way of knowing the time the person might lose his or her sense of time. The person might lose count of days; in addition that person might develop abnormal behavior. This might influence the person after, release from prison. The third important factor ids physical disorders this may be due to lack of sleep as the suspects have lost sense of time and abnormal eating habits. These physical disorders would include changes such as loss of weight. The other factor might be depression as the person is put away from the outside world. Discussion 3 Consider the psychological consequences of stripping, delousing, and shaving the head of prisoners and members of the military. What transformation takes place when people go through an experience like this? The psychological consequence of the acts stated above is discussed below. Each of these acts has a different affect on the person. During the Stanford experiment 'each prisoner was systematically searched and stripped naked. He was then deloused with a spray, to convey our belief that he may have germs or lice' (Philip G. Zimbadro,) this was done in order to humiliate the prisoners as per Dr Philip G. Zimbadro 'a degradation procedure was designed in part to humiliate prisoners' (Philip G. Zimbadro, 1999-2014), these to procedures would ultimately would reduce a person's sense of shame and hence would make that person aggressive and violent. This is due to the fact after being humiliated to the brink the person would not have any fear or shame of doing anything and the persons self esteem would be lost. 'Since some people express their individuality through hair style or length. It is also a way of getting people to begin complying with the arbitrary, coercive rules of the institution.' (Philip G. Zimbadro, 1999-2014.)… After shaving the hair the person loses his individualism and feel lost in the crowd. The consequence might be the person wanting revenge and aggressiveness towards others. The next psychological demerit is the person has a sense of being outside of the community sense affecting his sense of connection and his ability to interact affectively with others in the community. Discussion 4 At first push-ups where not very aversive form of punishment, but they become more so as they wore on. Why the change? Push-up is not considered to be such a physical form of punishment. But as the number of push-ups and the time span between the set of push-ups decreases the body muscles start feel the strain of these exercise. 'The guards again escalated very noticeably their level of harassment, increasing the humiliation they made the prisoners suffer, forcing them to do menial, repetitive work such as cleaning out toilet bowls with their bare hands. The guards had prisoners do push-ups, jumping jacks, whatever the guards could think up, and they increased the length of the counts to several hours each' ( Philip G. Zimbadro, 1999-2014 ) The second factor making push-ups an aversive form of punishment during the Stanford experiment is that due to lack of time for the muscles to relax the muscles fatigue increases, as a result muscles feel pain and sometimes lead to muscle cramp. The other factor is due to continuously receiving the punishment the subjects start to feel that they are being pushed around and that they are not on the same page as the prison guards. The people would feel inferior to the people giving them these punishments thus would be mentally broken down and would try to resist. Hence push-ups can be considered aversive form of punishment. Discussion 5 How do you think you would have behaved if you were a prisoner in this situation? Would you have rejected the privileges in order to maintain prisoner solidarity? In a situation like this it would be really difficult to calculate the way any human being would have acted in a situation comparable to the Abu Ghraib prison or a situation comparable to the Stanford prison experiment conducted by Philip G. Zimbadro. The situation in the prison might influence the behavior of the person. Prisoner solidarity is a bond developed through common ground and is developed for a sense of belonging. During the Stanford experiment then prisoners rejected their privileges but later due to the harassment from the guards the prisoners started to cooperate with the prison authorities for few privileges. ." The three prisoners least involved in the rebellion were given special privileges.' '. Privileged prisoners also got to eat special food in the presence of the other prisoners who had temporarily lost the privilege of eating. The effect was to break the solidarity among prisoners. (Philip G. Zimbadro, 1999-2014) This showed when time passes the human behavior or thoughts would change if continuous pressure is asserted on that particular person. Hence it is difficult to calculate whether I might fist reject the privileges but as time passes due to the harassment and physical abuses I might accept the privileges in order to attain some form of discretion from the prison guards. Discussion 6 Most prisoners has believed that the subjects selected to be guards were chosen because they were made prisoners, but actually, there was no difference in the average height of the two groups. What do you think caused this misperception? The main reasons for the prisoners believing that the guards' chosen for the Stanford prison experiment were physically well built and taller than them is that during the experiment, the prisoners were forced to wear only dresses without any under cloths as stated by Philip G. Zimbadro 'Our goal was to produce similar effects quickly by putting men in a dress without any underclothes.' (Philip G. Zimbadro, 1999-2014). This would enable the prisoners to think that the prison guards are taller than them because a person judges a person by the taking measurements of him or herself. For example a short person would say the suspect was a tall person but a taller witness would say the suspect was average because they take measurements of them self and compare it with others. This was proved in the experiment conducted at Brooklyn law school. The other reason might be the power the guards hold over the prisoners which would result in the prisoners thinking that they are inferior to the guards thus judging them to be more superior then the prisoners in every aspect including physical aspects. Thus getting the taught that the prison guards are much taller than the prisoners… Discussion 7 In 2003 U.S soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib 20 miles west of Baghdad. The prisoners were stripped, made to wear bags over their heads, and sexually humiliated while the guards laughed and took photographs. How this abuse similar or different from what took place in the Stanford Prison experiment? The Abu Ghraib prison the treatment of the prisoners was similar to that of the Stanford prison experiment. The prisoners were stripped naked and forced to wear bags on their heads in both the cases stated above. During this time the prisoners were regularly assaulted. In addition, the prison guards undermined the basic human rights of the detainees in the prison and used excessive force. As a matter of fact they misused their power. The other similarity at these both cases was there were no reported female prisoners. And the condition in which the prisoners were treated was identical to one another. The biggest difference between the Abu Ghraib and the Stanford prison experiment was that the Stanford incident was played and was purely based on research. On the other hand, the Abu Ghraib incident it was not a test and it was purely realistic scean. The second difference is that during the Stanford experiment the community would never have imagined female guards doing such brutal acts. In addition, in the Stanford prison experiment there were no female prison guards. But at the Abu Ghraib incident there were horrific images of female prison guards sexually assaulting the prisoners.