Analysis of the Stanford Prison Study of 1971 (Your name goes here (Your affiliation goes here )Q1 : In 1971 , the United States Navy commissioned Stanford University ‘s psychology department to conduct an experiment on the human responses to captivity (Stanford ,2007 . The specific purpose was to resolve conflictions within the naval prison system as well as the Marine Corps .Dr . Philip Zimbardo led a team of researchers composed of healthy male students . They would be paid fifteen dollars per day to participate in the experiment 76 /day adjusted according to inflation rates for 2006 (Stanford , 2007 . They simulated a prison environment by converting the bottom floor of one of the psychology buildings into the mock institution (Maxfield Babbie , 2005 . Randomization was employed for the selection of “guard ” vs “prisoner . Zimbardo instructed those who would serve as “guards ” in methods to depersonalize the “prisoners to take away their very identities . He wanted to promote “disorientation , depersonalization , and deindividuation (Stanford ,2007 . Specific focus was placed prisoners ‘ reactions to hopelessness and of having no control over personal decisions . They wanted to witness the traits exhibited by the “guards ” as well surprising acts of sadism and ruthlessness were demonstrated by some . There was cooperation from the Palo Alto Police Department in the form of actually charging ,arresting , booking , and delousing “prisoners . This added to the perceived authenticity of the experiment . The experiment has been and is still heavily criticized for having been inhumane and bordering on unscientific (Stanford , 2007 .Q2 : It was the United States Navy that funded the project . Their intent was to learn to understand human reactions to captivity . Zimbardo and his team constructed a hypothesis based on the assumption that prisoners and prison guards self-selectively create adverse conditions by assuming characteristics that would naturally lead to poor conditions (Stanford ,2007 . They wanted to test the power of the social situation to determine certain behaviors (Psychology Matters , 2004 “They wanted to determine what prison-like settings bring out in people that are not confounded by what people bring into prisons . They sought to discover to what extent the violence and anti-social behaviors often found in prisons can be traced to the “bad apples ” that go into prisons or to the “bad barrels (the prisons themselves ) that can corrupt behavior of even ordinary , good people (Psychology Matters , 2004 .Q3 : The study induced psychological trauma on the participants through a number of varying vehicles . Zimbardo conceptualized the variables to include effective degradation as their outcome . Collaboration with long-time convicts and other prison-related individuals enabled Zimbardo and his cast of actors to induce dominating control over the group of non-hardened young students (Psychology Matters , 2004 . The important variables included in the study are composed of the numerous methods employed by the controllers : removal of clothing /blankets bouts of forced physical exercise sexually humiliating “prisoners denial of personal hygiene items forced standing still for hours in a closet blasts with fire extinguishers and many other acts . Zimbardo and his minions assaulted the mock prisoners with varying methods…