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In this experiment explores the idea that obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. We as human beings are prone to obey, it is in our nature rooted from our ancestors; we obey to fit in and stay in the social trends. Milgram’s experiment was simple, it would test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Two people would come into a psychology lab and take part in a study of memory and learning, one was designated “teacher’ and the the other “learner.” The teacher would ask a few questions and if the learner failed to answer hey would receive a shock, show just how much pain the teacher would be causing they the same level of shock the student would …show more content…
In “Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals” by Jib Fowles, Fowles explains that we not only act in good and bad ways, but we react to things that affect us emotionally, sometimes even to those things locked away in our subconsciousness. We have fifteen basical appeals: the need for sex, the need for affiliation, the need to nurture, the need for guidance, the need to aggress, the need to achieve, the need to dominate, the need for prominence, the need for attention, the need for autonomy, the need to escape, the need to feel safe, the need for aesthetic sensations, The need to satisfy curiosity, and physiological needs: food, drink, sleep, etc. These basic appeals are highly exploited by the media, especially