someone great. This will not be an essay supporting disobedience but will in fact show how the greatest obedience is chosen; not forced upon an individual but the joining of obedience and liberty. In the article “The Perils of Obedience” Stanley Milgram defines obedience as: “Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living‚ and it is only the person dwelling in isolation who is not
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Introduction 4 Chapter 1 Conformity In Psychology 5 Chapter 2 Psychologist View On Conformity 9 Chapter 3 Solomon Asch’ Paradigm/Experiment 16 Chapter 4 Conclusion and Comparison 20 References 21 Introduction Imagine yourself in the following situation: You sign up for a psychology experiment‚ and on a specified date you and seven others whom you think are also subjects arrive and are seated at a table in a small room. You don ’t know it
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time‚ he simply did it (Wiesel 97). In the Perils of Obedience‚ the subject‚ Prozi‚ first “[refused] to take the responsibility” because the subject was in there “hollering” (Milgram 23). Immediately after the Experimenter said that he was “responsible for anything that happens to him”‚ the Prozi simply said “all right” (Milgram 23). This proves that the majority of people in a difficult situation will simply wait for somebody else to take responsibility for any wrong doings‚ or lack of action at all
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undesirable beliefs. B) inoculation effect: is the treatment in which people are first introduced to the reasons why a belief seems to be correct‚ and then exposed to the reasons why the belief is incorrect. * Zimbardo is to ________________ as Milgram is to _________________. A) deindividuation; obedience * The “banality of evil” refers to the idea that: perfectly normal citizens who follow orders blindly are responsible for most wickedness in the world. * C) 62% * Proximity
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DM summary Lecture 1 Question 1 = Assume you would like to subscribe to ‘Time’ magazine * internet only subscription * print only subscription * print and internet subscription = context question * Choices are made in a context * Everything is relative ‚ without context choices (in absolute terms) mean nothing * We compare jobs with jobs‚ wines with wines‚ lovers with lovers Question 2 = Anchoring and adjustment When was Atilla defeated by estimation
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In selecting and reviewing the article by Zimbardo Revisiting Stanford Prison Experiment‚ by the 1970s‚ psychologists had done a series of studies establishing the social power of groups; they showed‚ for example‚ that groups of strangers could persuade people to believe statements that were obviously false (Zimbardo 2007). Given the Stanford Prison Experiment had some ethical issues and concerns. The research question identified in this study review; Zimbardo wanted to know who wins good people
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is not a humane experiment. All of the people in this study could have potential lasting emotional and/or physical scars that may never heal. For instance‚ when Prisoner 8612 “began suffering from an acute emotional disturbance‚ disorganized thinking‚ uncontrollable crying‚ and rage” after only 36 hours into the experiment. How can the experimenter safeguard this person from these same effects when the experiment is over? Another reason I would not have conducted this experiment is how the prisoners’
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These actions were found to be dehumanizing to the prisoners in the study‚ and thus why this study is still known and talked about today. The American Psychological Association looked into this study and came to a conclusion that this act was not ethical. Zimbardo realized what he had done was a behavioral research that was dehumanizing towards humans and cannot ever be done again and felt ashamed for his actions. His main point of the study was to see how individuals would adapt when being put into
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The Milgram Experiment If people decided to just disobey and stop taking orders from authority figures‚ then imagine what kind of world we’d be in. If a cop were to turn his lights on you are gonna pull over because you know that is the right thing to do. Obedience is key for these type of issues. Just like when parents tell their children to do chores‚ they are gonna take that command and do what they are told. Why do we do that? That’s what we are trying to find out with the Milgram Experiment
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