As an experimenter, I would have conducted the study. I would not terminate it earlier if the participants behaved the same way the prisoners in Stanley Milgram’s Obedience studies turned out. However, I would have conducted further research so that I could understand better the minds of the participants concerning their different reactions. I would not change any of the experiments because, in my opinion, they all fit to evaluate conformity and obedience studies.

Question 2

If selected to be among the guards, I would have behaved like my colleagues because I would have observed how the majority of them operated, and I would follow.

Question 3

As a prisoner, I would probably survive through for the first two days, but beyond that, it would make me feel like a real prisoner, and it would lead to a rebellious me. Different from the prisoners, I would have endured seeing the outcome of the study, but as a real-life prisoner, I would never survive.

Question 4

The feeling of conforming to be uniform in behaviour led to the good guards just behaving like the bad ones. The Asch outcome is the impact of the group’s majority on a person’s decision. Janis’s effort to determine why groupings comprising of highly intellectual entities habitually made bad choices rehabilitated attention in the learning of how group activities, partialities, and pressures affect group decision making.

Question 5

Identity is the abilities, principles, behaviour, appearances, and expressions that brand an individual or group. The core of my self-independence is resilience, unlike slow in acting as others think. It is easy to make a new identity from a person with a different one because their behaviour and how they perceive themselves will be influenced by how the world around them thinks about them, (Norms, 2012).

Question 6

Ethics are crucial to consider since they govern the measures of the experiments we carry out.

Question 7

Ethical and unethical research is different from the measure of value for humanity and respect for individuality. It was ethically right to conduct Asch’s experiment because it did not cross the ethical boundaries, but Milgram’s prison experiment was not appropriate because ethics were overlooked.

Question 8

The prison experiment was not worth it because it exposed some of the participants to mental distress except for the other experiments that were worth the study.

Question 9

In both prison experiments, the prisoners were tortured mentally beyond the sociological ethical expectation where there was an invasion of individuality and privacy to the extent an outsider feels it was not right to further the study.

Question 10

With the knowledge that groupings influence the way we think and behave, sociology helps us to understand our identity and self-dependence.