Compare And Contrast Baumrind Vs Milgram

Baumrind vs. Milgram Milgram conducted an experiment which includes the subject of the experiment is in a laboratory environment and is told to give increasingly severe electric shocks to another person. The subject is getting told to do so by a person in a white lab coat, who appears to be a scientist; but is actually an actor. The person in the white lab coat tells the subject to continue to increase the level of shock the other person receives until they reach the level of “Danger Severe Shock.” The subject is listening to the actor scream of terror each time the shock is increased. The person believed to be receiving these electric shocks is also an actor and isn’t actually receiving any electric shock whatsoever. The purpose of this experiment is to see how far the subject will continue to shock this person before refusing to follow the instructions from the person in the white lab coat.
Authority is defined as the laboratory environment in this experiment. While the dependent variable is obedience, also known as how the subject will react to being told to increase the level of shock, no matter how much pain the other person is in. Baumrind criticized the variable of the laboratory environment by Milgram. Baumrind stated the laboratory is unfamiliar as a setting and the rules of behavior ambiguous compared to a clinician’s office. Because of the anxiety and passivity generated by the setting, the subject is more prone to behave in an obedient, suggestible manner in the laboratory than elsewhere (Baumrind 48). Baumrind believes this experiment should not be conducted within a laboratory because the environment is too influential on the person’s