Milgram’s research on obedience: how and why it can help student nurses The report aims to: Describe the main aspects of Milgram’s study on Obedience Explain why and how this research can be used to help prepare student nurses for working on hospital wards Contribute to the understanding of some of the challenges nurses may face in their working practices Background Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist from Yale University‚ conducted a series of experiments on obedience to explain some of the
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From the film “Obedience: Research carried out at Yale University”‚ Volunteers were paid a small sum to participates that understood the experiment to be a study of memory and learning. In truth‚ Yale University’s psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to study the willingness of subjects to obey an authority figure while this authority figure made the subjects perform acts that were in conflict with their moral conscience. The question guiding this experiment was asking to figure out to what extent
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a wrong direction. The education must aim for enlightenments because the education is important. The school is just like our society where the power takes over justices and oppress individuals’ freedom under the name of regulations and customs. Obedience is the virtue in the school. “Whips” and professors treat younger students as their private servant. They abuse their prerogatives as
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Obedience to Authority To what extent can humans’ morality be corrupted by environment‚ or are all humans cruel by nature? If an authority figure told another person to jump off a bridge‚ our response would be to reject his command and tell him to jump‚ but what would happen if an authority told somebody to execute a worthless criminal for his wrongdoings by pushing him off a bridge? According to research conducted by psychologists like Solomon Asch‚ and Philip G. Zimbardo‚ under the right variation
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Obedience Can Kill Obedience Can Kill As is common in our modern society‚ the government has laws and regulations in place for our safety. Many of these laws are well thought out and effective. But what happens when these same laws hamper our own ability to protect ourselves? Our obedience to the law can kill us. I firmly believe that my fellow students and the faculty of my college should have the ability to protect themselves from those who would do them harm. Students and faculty with a
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“On the Duty of Civil Obedience” I do not accept the motto. –“That government is best which governs least.” Government is a completely necessary institution. Without it‚ nations would crumble‚ famine would flourish‚ and massacres would occur daily. Of course it would be nice if humans didn’t need government‚ if men’s moral compasses all pointed in the same (correct) general direction. But they do not. It is just a far-fetched fantasy of perfection‚ it is impractical. Which is why government is necessary
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In The Perils of Obedience‚ Stanley Milgram expresses his findings of an experiment he conducted trying to prove the lengths people will go to be obedient to authority. The first experiments included a group of undergraduates from Yale. The experiments involved three subjects: the experimenter‚ the “teacher” and the “learner”. The teacher would read off a series of words. The learner‚ who is strapped to an electric chair‚ would be required to remember the words associated to one another. If the
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There were many factors that contributed to the obedience of the manager and other employees in the McDonalds case. The most evident factor was the voice that stated he was a police officer and had the restaurants manager on the other line stating that the employee stole from a customer. The assistant manager complied with the voice because she felt he was a legitimate authority figure. Summer engages in an authority role as an assistant manager but took on a role of being a law abiding citizen.
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CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Barbara Fellows Grand Canyon University January 9‚ 2013 Conformity and Obedience Comprehending the essence of obedience and disobedience has been an interest for many researchers‚ psychologists and scientists. Multiple observations have been administered to assist in understanding such issues and the impact employed by outside factors on individuals within the decision making channels. Neglecting obedience can be as hazardous as neglecting revolution in any society;
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El Laberinto del Fauno Obedience is a recurrent theme in El Laberinto del Fauno‚ discuss at least two examples and what they represent. In El Laberinto del Fauno‚ Guillermo del Toro uses the theme of obedience to illustrate and condemn two repressive components of fascism: patriarchy and the coercion of free will. This essay will look at two examples of obedience in the film which reveal the abhorrent nature of these aspects of fascism and the importance of resisting them. These are‚ respectively
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