the roadways. On the other hand‚ there are times where obedience to authority results in horrendous and immoral acts‚ such as the Nazis obeying the commands of Hitler. Some of Hitler’s
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massive massacres in history. His charge and influence on others elucidates psychological concepts. Members of the People’s Temple gave up their lives to devote to Mr. Jones’ because of his pressure on the mind persuading techniques of conformity‚ obedience‚ and cognitive dissonance. Conformity performed a role in Jones’ project prior to even becoming an official member of the group. Potential affiliates had to follow an oppressive application process that made it overly demanding to get accepted
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are told‚" is a phrase that many children have heard from their parents. Most parents are unaware that what they are asking for is incorrect and that teaching their children that respect is equivalent to obedience can be very harmful. Children who are raised believing that respect and obedience are equivalent are more likely to be coerced in to a negative situation by an authority figure in the future. Children should be taught that respect is earned; their parents have earned their respect by taking
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Running Head: CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Hitler’s silent advantage? – Control of people in a totalitarian regime Laura Frei In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Psychology 130-001 January 21‚ 2015 Bev Lenihan‚ Instructor Camosun College Hitler’s silent advantage? – Control of people in a totalitarian regime People tend to follow social norms when eating and watching TV. It lies in the nature of a human being to focus on the actions of others and act in groups. This orientation on
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Many of us may have even been rewarded for obedience and punished for disobedience. For most of us‚ being obedient creates a sense of accomplishment and pride‚ but what happens when we are put in a position where obeying a certain order results with violating ones own moral beliefs? In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a professor of psychology at Yale University‚ designed and conducted a series of very controversial experiments to test one’s limits of obedience (Milgram 358). Milgram wanted to measure
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army’s values and codes. So in effect‚ the early IJA was an army led by the most calculating‚ brutal and effective killers the country had on offer. Another advantage of the Samurai leading the army was that their strict moral code of loyalty‚ obedience‚ courage and honour was transferred to a unified
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Evil in the Potterverse and its Implications for Modern Society Throughout human civilisation‚ Evil has almost universally been connected with religion. Evil is most commonly associated with a material world of darkness‚ and is a destructive force opposing good; the spiritual world of light. Different religions hold variations on exact definitions and even within religions‚ ideas evolve. Medieval Christianity‚ led by the philosophies of Bishop Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas‚ conceptualised
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In this essay I intend to explore the relationship between obedience and discipline and how they are linked to the development of the will. I will identify the vital role that they have in the making of the whole person and just how essential they are to all areas of human development and integration. The terms discipline and obedience can have both negative and positive connotations. Traditionally the terms can convey negative images of punishment and of rules and regulations. They are commonly
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it is that people obey and disobey and how the actions of either could relate to our current condition. In the first paragraph Fromm states that “obedience is a virtue and disobedience is a vice”‚ followed by this interjection‚ “Human history began with an act of disobedience‚ and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.” This comparison of obey or disobey‚ virtue or vice‚ good versus evil has played out down throughout history. Since the beginning of recorded history
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Cody Porter ACP Comp‚ Period 2 November 25‚ 2013 Redo Critique Paper Diana Baumrind’s Review on Obedience Experiments from Stanley Milgram In Diana Baumrind’s “Review on Obedience Experiments from Stanley Milgram‚ she asserted that his experiments were unethical in its procedure. She also states the main idea that the variables in the experiments could have affected their results of obedience. Baumrind points out that there should have been more and better steps in having safer tests in protecting
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