Outline a key issue for obedience‚ discuss by using theories/studies from obedience for what happened in Abu Ghraib The Abu Ghraib prison is a notorious prison in Iraq‚ located in Abu Ghraib‚ near Baghdad. US soldiers were told to abuse and humiliate the prisoners by their leaders; this included chaining them up‚ treating them like dogs‚ and sometimes sexually harassing them. In April 2004 the abuses at Abu Ghraib were exposed with photos and videos showing US soldiers abusing naked Iraqis. On the
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related experiment‚ in which the students should participate‚ plus two or three lessons to talk about research‚ some phenomena and findings concerning “The Psychology of Persuasion”‚ summed up and shortened as “Cialdini’s Weapons”. I am referring to Robert B. Cialdini (Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1999‚ 2nd edition)) and several scientific articles (see Sources). 1. The Experiment1 One approach to understanding psychological phenomena is participation in an experiment. Let the
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Confounding variables- work their way into an experiment which may screw it up without us being accountable for them Diffusion: The spread of a cultural trait from one society to another through social contact Acculturation: The process of contact‚ exposure‚ and exchange of ideas between different cultures that results in adaptations and changes to both groups Wednesday September 5‚ 2012 Strip-Search Case Closed? Summary: An 18 year old girl with worked at McDonalds was forced to strip
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is needed more than disobedience to make society function properly. Dalrymple starts with summarizing Milgram’s experiment that took place at Yale‚ and he states the events that occurred. He added that Milgram proved that people shock strangers‚ inflict pain‚ and go against their morals only because they wanted to obey the instructions of the conductor. He notes that although Milgram did not find everything he wanted to know‚ he found that‚ “even decent people might become torturers and killers”
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anywhere Martin Bright‚ home affairs correspondent The Observer‚ Sunday 17 December 2000 Psychologists have struggled for decades to explain why ordinary people participate in atrocities such as the Nazi Holocaust or the Stalinist purges. Now experiments carried out in Britain reveal that most people obey authority unquestioningly and would also walk past an injured stranger who did not come from their own ethnic or social group. The findings will shake the long-held British belief that this country
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influence‚ the need to be liked‚ accepted by others and Informational influence: need to be correct and to behave in accordance with reality. Solomon Asch (1956) devised an experiment to see if subjects would conform even if they were uncertain that the group norm was incorrect. In his study he asked subjects to take part in an experiment. They were each asked to match a standard length line with three other lines. He found that one of the situational factors of conformity is the size of the opposing
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The Art of Torture According to a 2006 survey conducted by BBC News‚ 58% of Americans say that any form of torture upon a fellow man for any reason is wrong (“One-third” 1)‚ which is ironic because horror films‚ such as Saw and Hostel‚ where victims are brutally murdered and ripped to shreds for the audience’s pure entertainment pleasure topped the box offices with their releases in 2004 and 2005. By looking at sociopolitical platforms and moral messages behind the ‘torture porn’ subgenre‚
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to an innocent middle-aged man? Were the participants sadists (people who enjoy giving others pain)? Did Milgram manage somehow to recruit only “crazy participants”? The answer to these questions is of course “No.” The participants were indeed average people who came from all walks of life. They were young‚ old‚ rich‚ poor‚ educated and uneducated. So what accounts for their obedience? Milgram says the essence of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out
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protect themselves before protecting a stranger. Stanley Milgram put a study together to prove that Germans are more likely to be obedient to authority then American are. The study was called “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger‚ Would You? Probably.” Milgram explains the character aspects of why people listen to authority and why they afraid not to. Social structure and the organization of society have a powerful affect on people. Milgrams set out to New Haven to start the study ad later on
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occuring relationships among the variables. De grote kracht van correlatie onderzoek is dat het voorkomt in real-world gebeurtenissen waarin we factoren zoals ras‚ sex‚ and sociale status kunnen examineren‚ die we niet kunnen manipuleren in een lab-experiment. Het grote nadeel is de meerduidigheid van de resultaten. Wetend dat twee variabelen tegelijk veranderen stelt ons in staat de ander te voorspellen als we de ene weten; maar correlatie specificeert niet oorzaak en gevolg. Experimental research
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