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As you have read in this chapter, The Stanford Prison Experiment suggests that individuals will adopt social roles relatively quickly.  Remember that a social role is a socially defined pattern of behavior that is expected of a person in a given setting or group.  These social roles may become even more pronounced when one person has a greater amount of perceived power over another person as was shown by this famous study.  Based on your understanding of social roles, social norms, and scripts, how can this experiment be applied to everyday life? Describe a situation where you believed yourself to be carrying out a social role?  Did the social role feel authentic to your own core beliefs and values?  Why or why not?

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Ariana Lubin Mrs. MaetzkePsychology 2012November 14, 2021This experiment can be applied to everyday life because while this experiment was meant to teach along with test the daily lives, the social norms and roles of prisoners and guards. They also taught the way that prisons worked. The results of this experiment came with the change of psychological behavior from those who participated. Which is to be understood because of how prisons really work, it’s hard to not be affected. To feel what prisoners seem to feel on a daily basis, especially when certain prisoners disobey the social norms of prisons. Costing grave danger from guards to other prisoners. I feel as though in a way this experiment could be applied to everyday life because even while it had to be shut down. This experiment did teach does 24 healthy college men the way  it works inside a prison. This could very much teach other individuals who are willing to participate, other ways that certain social norms seem to work. So this experiment being applied to every life could very much be enlightening. The only social role I’ve seen to be constantly is that of a student. In high school, it was to study, write notes, pay attention to the teachers, do homework that teachers gave and with those studies, try to perform my absolute best on tests, quizzes, or exams. The social norms of my school were the rules set for students to abide by. Dress code rules, so that even when not having to wear uniforms. Students maintain a sort of professional look. Other rules were for students to know to act a certain way. No fighting, cheating, stealing, etc. Each social norm set in school was for those playing a social role, such as students, staff members, teachers, to abide in this particular society being school grounds. I’m in-between feeling as though my social part was authentic to my own core beliefs and values. To elaborate, I do believe that having an education is very important. It allows for individuals to go forth with specific careers they see themselves in. But, even while education does allow for all these possibilities of success and going big. Many lucky individuals are wealthy and successful with secondary education in their past. This explains my partial belief in the authenticity of my social role as something of value because as much as education, being a student is needed and does grasp into a more extraordinary succession. At the same time, it’s not required.