the same manner as the middle-class kids in the experiment. I believe the urban kids would handle the stress of these situations with less stress than that of their counter parts. The reason I state this due to exposures and existing environment. Urban kids deal with a greater amount of hardships and constant opposition in life compared to other classes if kids. Urban kids also create a thicker emotional skin within
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itioned by Transfer John B Watson and Rosalie Rayner conducted an experiment in the 1920’s. The experiment included an infant named Albert‚ who was unemotional and hardly had any exposure to a stimulus to cause an exuberant emotional reaction. Emotional test had been conducted on Albert; a stimulus that was used in the initial experiment‚ items such as a white rat‚ dog‚ rabbit‚ and other various “furry” items‚ he showed no fear in any instance. Starting at nine months old Albert was exposed to a
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Examine the problems some sociologists may face when using different kinds of experiments in their research (20 Marks) To have control over variables and the environment they are researching‚ sociologists often use laboratory experiments in research. Lab experiments are used to test a hypothesis in a controlled environment‚ by altering an independent variable to see the dependant variable being tested changes. Positivists favour this method of research as it is a more scientific approach to research
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Would you kill another human being? Sure‚ it may seem impossible‚ but there is the ability to do evil inside all of us. Philip Zimbardo would know. He was a professor of psychology at Stanford University who ran the “Stanford Prison Experiment”‚ in which he recorded the violent and sadistic tendencies of male college students in the role of prison guards. He once said that “human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside… There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm
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concern on the unethical aspects of the research‚ as medical science advance the researchers place little or no effort towards informing subjects about the nature of experiments. Tuskegee syphilis experiments in Alabama was on especially an infamous experiment‚ from ‘‘1932 to 1972’‘ the U.S. Public Health Services (PHS) conducted an experiment on 400 African American males in the late stages of syphilis these men‚ for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama‚
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‘blame’. They continued to obey and carried on with the experiment when they were told the experimenter was responsible. However if he had said that they were personally responsible‚ it is likely the outcome of the experiment would have been different. The change the participants went through from the autonomous state to the agentic state‚ is the agentic shift. When Milgram’s participants were debriefed after the electric shock experiment‚ many reported that they knew it was wrong to give the dangerous
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Describe and discuss two factors that Milgram found effect obedience? Refer to empirical evidence in your answer Milgram’s original study into obedience came under to a lot of scrutiny because of both mythological and ethical problems. This meant that the validity of Milgram’s study was put into question. Following the study were further investigations to see what might change and explain the results that Milgram found‚ both by Milgram himself and other psychologists. Variations to his study throw
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psychologist way back in the 1950s‚ which is even before my parents were born. Asch conducted a famous experiment on the effects of peer pressure on a person. What he found was that a person had a “tendency to conform‚ even it means to go against the person’s basic perceptions”. The web page also said that people “are swayed by the masses against our deepest feelings and convictions”. 1 These experiments that Asch created developed the theory of conformism‚ which says that a person will go along with
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Devin Crockrel Shannon Smith Eng 112 18 June 2013 Obedience to Authority: “The Stanford Prison Experiment” “The Stanford Prison Experiment” was a well-known and controversial study. It took place in 1973 and delved into the human psyche behind roles of authority‚ and obedience. The setting was a controlled prison environment at Stanford University. The experiment was meant to study the process in which “guards” and “prisoners” learn to become obedient‚ and an authoritarian. The subjects
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Mifflin Harcourt‚ 2009. 167-95. Print. Milgram‚ Stanley. “The Perils of Obedience.” Current Issues and Enduring Questions. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford-St Martin’s‚ 2005. 883-95. Waller‚ James. "Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil." Perpetrators of Genocide: an Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil. 1st ed. Vol. 1. Spokane‚ WA: Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate‚ 2002. 18-21. Print. Zimbardo‚ Phillip. “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum:
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