There are five main ethical guidelines used by the IRB to determine whether an experiment is ethically sound; respect for people, loyalty and responsibility, justice, beneficence/nonmaleficence, and integrity (Hackathorn 2014). In Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Study, Zimbardo was interested in finding out how people would voluntarily conform to the roles of guard and prisoner in a paced role. gaming experiment. Participants were chosen as prisoners or guards and were placed in a prison environment for six days before Zimbardo had to stop the experiment (Cherry, 2014). To comply with IRB ethical guidelines of individuals, each participant was given informed consent on the study. Participants also had a preliminary interview in which participants with anxiety problems were told not to participate due to the effects of the study. However, consent could not be fully informed because not even Zimbardo himself knew what would happen in the study (McLeod, 2008). Participants in this study also had the right to withdraw, even if they felt they could not do so because they were adjusting to the prison environment. Confidentiality was also included in the study because participants had to fill out a release form in order to use their video footage. Participants were also assigned an identifying number during the experiment, thus remaining anonymous not only to other members of the study, but also to anyone who watched the footage (McLeod, 2008). In compliance with the fidelity and responsibility guideline, participants were given complete defrication after the study. Participants also had their psychological state analyzed (McLeod, 2008). Participants in this study were not protected from harm and were in more than one debriefing session ever. Watson, without debriefing Albert or his mother, failed to eliminate the conditioned fear response. The boy had an irrational fear of anything white and soft (Cherry, 2014). Little Albert was at greater than minimal risk and was not protected from harm. The boy felt great anguish because of the experiment. The experiment was designed to condition an emotional response of fear. The participant would be emotionally traumatized by the experiment and may be at risk of suffering long-term effects. In conclusion, Watson's classical conditioning experiment would be unethical and would not be carried out in this day and age due to IRB ethical guidelines. The Little Albert experiment had more risks than benefits and exceeded all ethical guidelines to protect participants in psychology studies.