Genre Analysis Assignment

Academic Text: http://www.prisonexp.org/psychology/1

In the article A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford University discusses how Phillip Zimbardo’s Stanford’s Prison experiment affected not only the men who participated but as well as the staff members who analyzed this experiment. At first the psychologists wanted to study the ramifications of a regular guy who played the role as a prisoner or prison guard. But the entire experiment was stopped after only six days though originally it was suppose to be conducted for fourteen days. The effects of the experiment were too real to further on continue this experiment.

Photographic Text:

In this image it displays how the men actually began to take their roles seriously whether they were assigned as a prison guard or prisoner. Though the guards knew that the prisoners did nothing wrong they still dehumanized them making each of the prisoners feel powerless (Exhibit A: Placing a paper bag over there head and calling them only by the numbers on their uniform) The treatment the guards used on the prisoners were morally wrong and inhuman that which each passing day the prisoners would begin to have mental breakdowns.

YouTube Clip Text: http://youtu.be/sZwfNs1pqG0

            This footage captured the events on what went down in Zimbardo’s experiment, this clip stunned the world on how one could turn evil or hopeless by just getting assigned a role. It demonstrates how the prisoners were mistreated and how much power the guards had in their hands. It was only when a fellow female psychologist who happened to be Zimbardo’s girlfriend at the time went and saw how out of hand this experiment had gotten. Zimbardo then realized this experiment had gone to far and ended it after only six days.

·       Each of these texts covers most of the same material on what Phillip Zimbardo’s experiment particularly was about. They all share a sense of a serious and formal tone in which they speak in the video clip or the words they use in article. The photograph shows how the prisoners are defenseless and that the guards are the ones that have all the power, in this particular photograph the prisoners are being dehumanized by putting brown paper bags over there head while the guards do whatever they please to them. All three of these texts relate back to one another on the seriousness, humiliating, and unethical views conducted with this experiment.