Lesley Rawlins The end justifies the means The end justifies the means is an expression that is often used in society to validate or excuse distasteful and objectionable actions undertaken by its people. In effect‚ the phrase is a justification for dispensing with all morality and principle in the passage towards a successful conclusion. The Greek writer Sophocles wrote in Electra 409 BC “the end excuses any evil." This was a thought later considered‚ by the Roman poet Ovid‚ ‘the
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References: a) PSYCHOLOGY AND LIFE‚ 14TH edition by Zimbardo and Gerrig. b) PSYCHOLOGY‚ 3rd edition by Carole Waide and Carol Tavris. c) ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND LIFE‚ 10th edition by Zimbardo. d) THE ESSENTIAL WORLD OF PSYCHOLOGY‚ by Samuel E. Wood and Ellen Green Wood. e) PSYCHOLOGY‚ 2nd edition by Zimbardo Philip and Ann L Weber.
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people’s behaviour to bring about possible social change. Secondly‚ from a ’psychology’ perspective‚ the essay will focus on how individual’s behaviour is affected by the taking on of ’roles’ and ’scripts’ as well as analysing the evidence from the Zimbardo experiment. Finally‚ from a ’social science’ perspective looking at the consideration of the ’Resource Mobilisation Theory’ together with the motivations observed by sociologists with the emergence of ’new social movements’. From a management
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person’s endeavors to defeat them (Gerrig & Zimbardo‚ 2010). Some common OCD experiences are: extreme checking‚ extreme cleaning‚ and any habit that is taken to the extreme; OCD can also include common phobias: to animals‚ needles‚ heights‚ etc. The compulsions are repetitive and have different responses according to the obsession. At first‚ people can control the compulsions‚ but when anxiety rises‚ the tension seems uncontrollable (Gerrig & Zimbardo‚ 2010). OCD can be very frustrating because
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Broken Windows Disorder is defined as the disruption of peaceful and law-abiding behavior. Malcolm Gladwell uses this word to explain the cause of chaos and epidemic when it comes to crime in cities. In Gladwell’s passage‚ The Power of Context‚ he describes disorder as an epidemic which results from a small‚ single event‚ referred to as the “broken window” and which can instigate and influence the behaviors of those in the community. In the Power of Context‚ Gladwell describes disorder as something
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of participants would administer a fatal shock if instructed by an authority figure to do so. In the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ Zimbardo found both the student guards and student prisoners assumed their roles immediately. The guards began to degrade the prisoners and as a result the prisoners started to reject the guard’s authority and began to revolt. Secondly‚ Zimbardo found that some of the guards displayed cruel behavior and punished the prisoners with manual labor
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At the beginning of the experiment‚ everyone had an ascribed role or a role assigned by the conductor of the experiment. Professor Zimbardo was ascribed to be the superintendent. 24 healthy male college students were randomly assigned to be either the guards or the prisoners. The guards’ responsibility was simply to cause chaos and disturbance among the inmates without using physical
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“The Man He Killed”: A Reflection of Human Nature Philip Zimbardo‚ a renowned psychologist known famously for the 1971 Stanford Prison experiment‚ once said “human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The ’situation’ is the external environment. The inner environment is genes‚ moral history‚ religious training” In this quote‚ Zimbardo addresses the perceived reasoning behind any individual’s decision making. Similar to this reasoning‚ Thomas Hardy’s “The Man He Killed”
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Zimbardo had an all male participant group and split them into two groups of guards and prisoners. He put the groups into a simulated prison setting. This experiment was due to last two weeks‚ however‚ due to the participants taking their roles so seriously
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It can be inferred that learning from others has become the default form of learning in today’s society. We as humans acquire new intelligence every day‚ potentially without realizing such. Growing up‚ a child will attend school; there they will focus on developing the skills of a student: taking notes‚ memorization‚ performance‚ and others. In addition to this‚ children will also learn social skills‚ such as being a friend‚ or being a bully. Growing into adulthood‚ these children will develop
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