Critical Thinking Stanley Milgram Experiment I feel the reason the Milgram Experiment subjects were lacking the moral and critical thinking of how they reacted to the experiment was a multitude of things such as. The subjects felt they had to because they were being told to by “people of authority” They also felt that since they were participating in the experiment and they were only doing “as told” then they were okay to proceed. Some also stated that do to the trust they had for the school and
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Social psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram of Yale University conducted a controversial and influential experiments on study of the effect of punishment on learning. Nearly 1000 people participated in Milgram’s 20 experiments. The participants assigned to be a learner and a teacher. Milgram created an electric ’shock generator’; it ranged from 15-450 volts. The teachers were given a task to teach and then test the learner on a list of word pairs. For the first wrong answer‚ the teacher will flip the switch
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I watched the Milgram experiment during the first lecture. The result of the experiment was very shocking to me – over half of the subjects would keep shocking the ‘learners’ until the end just because the experimenters required them to do so‚ even though the learners cried desperately for help. I think this experiment has fully revealed the destructive side of authority‚ which can turn a mature and conscientious adult into a tool for punishment or even killing. The experiment reminds me of the
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Stanley Milgram‚ a famous social psychologist‚ and student of Solomon Asch‚ conducted a controversial experiment in 1961‚ investigating obedience to authority. The experiment was held to see if a subject would do something an authority figure tells them‚ even if it conflicts with their personal beliefs and morals. This experiment brought uproar amongst the psychological world and caused the code of ethics to be reviewed and ultimately changed. In the experiment subjects were asked to administer
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cases include‚ The Milgram Obedience and Authority experiment‚ The Stanford Prison experiment‚ and of course the Abu Ghraib scandal involving our own U.S. soldiers. While two of these instances were not intended to cause physical harm‚ they were all branded unethical due to the extent of not only the physical abuses that took place‚ but the painful psychological impact it left on those involved. One experiment‚ called The Milgram experiment‚ also raised ethical concern. The experiment consisted of 40
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their behaviour did and it was nothing to do with individual personality. The experiment links into the Milgram experiment‚ in which ordinary people followed orders to give what they thought was electric shocks to people they could not see. Participants’ behaviour was slightly affected due to the fact that they were watched as opposed to a lurking variable (Hawthorne effect). This questions the reliability of the experiment and its findings to a certain extent‚ as we do not know how the participants
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The Stanley Milgram experiment takes normal everyday people and gives them orders to do horrible things. The test is to see if someone would do an awful act just on the basis of someone telling them to. This experiment speaks to the ’nature of responsibility’ and to see if the subject will stop the experiment due to its dangerous nature. The subject is tricked into thinking they are the teacher‚ and the other person in the room‚ an actor‚ is the learner. The teacher will ask the learner a series
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Introduction Milgram Experiment Method 40 men were recruited for a lab experiment investigating “learning”. In exchange for their participation‚ each person was paid $4.50. After the WWII‚ Stanley Milgram a psychologist of Yale University posed a question‚ “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices? These men were introduced to another participant who were actually actors. These men were given role
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The social science “Milgram Experiments” were used to discover of the people would willingly hurt another person because someone of authority told them to do it but the participants were told that the purpose of the experiment was to study memory with punishments. Ethic and moral dilemmas appeared during the experiment that criticized the research and its methods because of its deception and stress that it puts on the volunteers. There are multiple reasons why the experiment could be used to show
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Stanley Milgram Journal Assignment Draft A psychologist named Stanley Milgram created an invention called the shock generator which included thirty different switches that had ranging voltages. The main question of the experiment is “how long will someone continue to give shocks to another person if they are told to do so‚ even if they thought they could be seriously hurt?” (Milgram Experiment‚ 2008). Of course to conduct any experiment‚ you need participants. Stanley Milgram had forty subjects
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