Stanley Milgram conducted an examination‚ in the 60’s‚ based on the justification for the acts of genocide offered by those who were accused in the Nuremberg War Criminal Trials of WWII. Their defense‚ as they claimed was solely based on “obedience” and that they were in fact only following their superior’s orders. This eventually led to the study on the conflict between obedience toward authority and one’s personal conscious. His experiment was a model of simplicity. The idea was to take an ‘experimenter’
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Stanley Milgram’s Aims & Context 10.09.2014 Obedience is a direct social influence where a person complies with orders without questioning a person with perceived authority and does a task voluntarily. In the presence of a person of authority‚ the said person has an option of either complying with orders they are given or to disobey‚ and as consequences may be unknown if they do not follow what they are asked to do‚ fear of punishment may influence the person to then respond by submitting
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In Stanley Milgram’s experiment‚ The Memory Project- effect on punishment on learning‚ the concept of staging in terms of what is real and not real in relation to the photographs objects and subjects‚ which is conveyed through the facilitator and the learner parallels Sontag’s concept of framing and representation In Plato’s Cave‚ and Barthes idea of posing and theater in Camera Lucida. Sontag and Barthes’s understandings of photography’s “reality” intersect in that their notion of the object in
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situations. The results of the Milgram‚ Asch‚ and Zimbardo studies can teach us to avoid abuses of power in the future. The first study discussed was conducted by Stanley Milgram‚ and it looked at how far a participant would go in hurting another human when told to do so by the researcher in charge. Sometimes subjects gave what was supposed to be a potentially lethal jolt of electricity when told to by the researcher. The lesson that can be gained from this experiment is that people will follow directions
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I think the Milgram and Zimbardo’s results is a good theory for the Holocaust. When the two‚ Instructor and Student‚ were in role play for every wrong answer the instructor would shock the student. At times when the instructor would say‚ “I don’t want to do this” or “I can’t do this” shows he does have a consequence‚ but he continued to still push the trigger. Although it was just an actor playing the role and no one was being shocked it is terrible to see how he continued to go on with the test
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In this film‚ Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. It was shown that ordinary people tend to follow orders given by an authority figure‚ even to the extreme of killing an innocent human being. But‚ being obedient to individuals‚ especially with authority is carved into a human being from the way they were raised. If the person with authority is recognized to be morally right‚ people tend to obey orders from
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In the 1960s‚ Milgram‚ then a professor at Yale‚ recruited ordinary people through a newspaper ad offering them money to help in a project purporting to improve human memory. In Milgrams experiment two people come into the laboratory where they are told they will be taking part in a study of memory and learning. Milgram was interested in how people obey under authoritative circumstances‚ using "fake" settings to test obedience. Under any given circumstance people tend to obey authority differently
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Outline and Evaluate Milgrams Study of Obedience (12 marks) . Milgram after advertising for volunteer participants were paid on arrival at the laboratory for their time. Participants‚ believing they were taking part in a memory experiment‚ were introduced in pairs to the experimenter where they ‘decided’ who was to be either a ‘teacher’ or a ‘learner’. In reality one of the ‘pairs’ of participants was a confederate and the chances were rigged so that the real participant was always the ‘teacher’
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Evaluate Milgrams research into obedience. Stanley Milgram (1963) explains why 65% of the people did something they felt was morally wrong‚ that is they went into an agentic state and exhibited some aspects of denial in order to avoid moral strain. However‚ Milgram does not explain why 65% did not obey. In other words‚ it does not explain individual differences as the volunteers in Milgrams experiment seemed to resist the pressure and Milgram does not explain that. To continue‚ the experiment lacked
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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
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