IB Psychology (HL) Krissy Gear Milgram’s Experiment on Obedience P. 3 July 1961‚ Yale University Psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to test peoples’ obedience to authority figures. He wanted to see how many people would comply or resist commands by (an idea of) an authority figure. Milgram’s experiment began with two men about twenty to fifty years in age. The participants volunteered through an advertisement and a promise of $4.50 for their
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and differences are given between two articles as well as the readers own opinion of the authors’ work. In Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience”‚ certain experiments were conducted on separate types of individuals. Milgram forces his subjects to administer shocks to a non-existent person on the other side of a wall. This experiment questions the obedience of individuals when put in a sadistic environment. On the other hand in Solomon E. Asch’s “Opinions and Social Pressure”‚ he gives a basic
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Stanley Milgram experimented with the theory that people will likely submit and follow an authority figure. He determined this from a famous experiment he conducted named the Milgram Obedience Experiment. In this test‚ he gathered random people and assigned them as the “teacher”‚ and placed them in a room with the controls for a shock machine (with various settings‚ from slight shock to XXX). Then he placed a confederate in a room‚ attached to a shock machine‚ who was the “student”. The “teacher”
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The Controversy of Obedience A classic experiment on the natural obedience of individuals was designed and tested by a Yale psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram. The test forced participants to either go against their morals or violate authority. For the experiment‚ two people would come into the lab after being told they were testing memory loss‚ though only one of them was actually being tested. The unaware individual‚ called the “teacher” would sit in a separate room‚ administering memory related
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We are all born animals and savages at heart. People who are just ‘following orders’ by doing sadistic and terrible things are showing their true form. These were some of the reasons behind the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments. These experiments were to test people’s obedience to authority - or a man in a lab coat. Milgram’s experiment was the first of its kind‚ seeing as how similar experiments were repeated afterward‚ and he wanted to prove that authority was a major part in why people listened
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have been justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in state of mind is called an agentic shift. For example in Milgram shock experiment (1963)‚ many participants reported
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What makes ethical behaviors sometimes immoral? Obedience is one of the really good morals that everyone should have‚ one of the things that people are looking for in people around them and that parents wants their children to have. This valuable moral as much as it is really valued and wanted‚ sometimes is not the best thing to do; sometimes disobeying or saying “NO” is much better‚ but this does not mean that it lost its value and become unethical; rather it means that it is like any other thing
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In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram was interested in the psychology behind people who blindly follow authoritative figures. His interest in this idea peaked because of WWII and the atrocities practiced by the subordinates of Hitler. As a way to test this question‚ Milgram came up with a university study that would put people’s conscience to the test. This observation of the human mind would lay a groundwork and test the boundaries of understanding the thought process behind genocides. It did not examine
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Is it fair to deceive humans in an unethical psychological experiment in order to receive new information? This is a question that I believe needs to be asked when one thinks of the Milgram experiment‚ a psychological study set up in the U.S in 1965. American psychologist Stanley Milgram held an experiment in order to see how severely ordinary human beings could knowingly cause harm to another human. This idea came about when he studied the holocaust in Germany in WWII‚ and then in the Nuremberg
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“If you can’t give a good reason for believing what you believe‚ then it’s not your belief; it’s someone else’s.” Morality vs. Obedience How would someone tease apart this blanket statement and how would they compare it to morality and obedience in less than three pages? Well‚ this is how I would. First‚ I’d start by making clear that belief is different from knowledge. Knowledge can be defined as “a clear perception of a truth or fact‚ erudition; skill from practice.” A belief can
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