Obedience To Authority, By Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram was a psychologist at the University of Yale. Milgram decided to conduct an experiment that would focus on the conflict between authority and a person's personal conscience. Milgram did this study to find the meaning and a new understanding of the acts of the people that occurred during World War II. Milgram wanted to figure out if the Germans were particularly obedient toward authoritative figures. He was eager to find out just how far people would be willing to go in order to obey a certain order even if the act meant hurting another person in the process. The Milgram gave us a new understanding and outlook on how our brains our wired and how we respond to certain authoritative figures in a given situation.
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There were anchors that were added to the machine to make the appearance of it to be more frightening ("Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority”). The earner would be strapped into the chair and was given a list of words to memorize and after some time the teacher would test him ("Saul McLeod”). At a given point during the questioning process the actor would refuse to answer any further questions and the teacher would be interested to administer a shock due to the fact that silence was taken as an incorrect answer. After hitting three hundred and thirty volts the learner would be completely silent and that is if the teacher reached this point without any rebellion ("Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority”.) The teacher is instructed to administer an electric shock for every wrong answer that the learner gives making sure to increase the voltage level each time. The generator had a total of thirteen switches with voltage ranging from as little as fifteen all the way to four hundred and fifty votes. The learner de to the fact that he was one of Milgram's actors gave mail wrong answers intentionally. If the teacher became hesitant or stopped in authoritative figure would urge them to continue. At the end of the experiment the participants were shown that they had not harmed anyone and were given much very needed
The experiment …show more content…
There were anchors that were added to the machine to make the appearance of it to be more frightening ("Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority”). The earner would be strapped into the chair and was given a list of words to memorize and after some time the teacher would test him ("Saul McLeod”). At a given point during the questioning process the actor would refuse to answer any further questions and the teacher would be interested to administer a shock due to the fact that silence was taken as an incorrect answer. After hitting three hundred and thirty volts the learner would be completely silent and that is if the teacher reached this point without any rebellion ("Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority”.) The teacher is instructed to administer an electric shock for every wrong answer that the learner gives making sure to increase the voltage level each time. The generator had a total of thirteen switches with voltage ranging from as little as fifteen all the way to four hundred and fifty votes. The learner de to the fact that he was one of Milgram's actors gave mail wrong answers intentionally. If the teacher became hesitant or stopped in authoritative figure would urge them to continue. At the end of the experiment the participants were shown that they had not harmed anyone and were given much very needed