Milgram Experiment: Administrating A Shock To A Students

Imagine yourself being shocked as an act of you incorrectly answering a question. In the Milgram Experiment, 40 men were recruited using newspaper ads in order to preform a test that would question human obedience. The question posed was: would they comply with an authority figures commands because they were stressed to, or would they comply because they thought it was the noble thing to do? The results clearly show that under authority, people will comply with what they are told to do even if they don't agree with it. Opening, obviously under certain circumstances people will change how they behave. In this experiment, participants were put under immense stress because of what they had to do. They played the role of a "teacher," administrating a shock to a "student" each time they answered one of their questions incorrectly. The shock level was told to be raised the more the student failed, starting at 30 volts and increasing in 15-volt increments all the way to 450 volts. The "teacher" believed it was real, but in actuality the "students" were all acts pretending to be shocked. Most of the participants asked the experiment if they should continue or not after a while. Each time, a series of replies would be followed, such as "Please continue. The experiment requires that
During the Miller Experiment, it was said that the participants "..became extremely agitated, distraught..."(Article 1 Paragraph 10) If a person who overpowered you was insisting you to do something, it is most likely that you would. If you didn't, consequences might occur. The participants in the experiment might also not want to come off as looking bad to the authority figure, which in this case was Yale ... "...the study was sponsored by Yale (a trusted and authoritative academic institution...)"(Article 1 Paragraph 14) With this, the participants complied out of fear of the authority