Psychology Homework Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Milgram obedience study. Should the study have taken place? Milgram’s study is a very controversial study as it broke many ethical guidelines and has many methodological issues‚ but it also had many strengths. One strength of the Milgram study on obedience is that the experiment was reliable as it can be replicated and the results are consistent. The fact that the experiment was a Lab experiment makes the study even more reliable
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In Stanley Milgram’s‚ The Perils of Obedience‚ Milgram states "obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to."(1) Milgram then shows how submission to that authority goes back as far as Abraham. He makes us look into ourselves and see why we obey these commands against our better judgment. Milgram then goes into detail about the experiment he set up at Yale University to test how much pain a person would inflict on another person just because they were ordered
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SUMMARY OF MILGRAM ARTICLE The Milgram (1963) article is about an experiment that was conducted on the Yale University campus on obedience. A newspaper ad and mailers were sent out to advertise for participants for an experiment that offered 4.50 just to show up and brought in 40 participants ranging in age‚ education level and occupation. The participants were told that the study had to do with memory and that one participant would be the learner and the other would be the teacher. The teacher
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hANdout tWo The WPA The Work Projects Administration (WPA)‚ originally called the Works Progress Administration‚ was the largest government agency established to fight unemployment during the Great Depression. From its inception in 1935 as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal‚ the agency was responsible for refurbishing America’s road infrastructure‚ erecting buildings and bridges‚ improving airports‚ developing the arts‚ and giving millions of its employees an honest wage and a job
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Vietnam controversy made many people feel at distress. It was never considered a "war‚" although that is exactly what it was. The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam was one of the many atrocities of that war. There is an unquestionable connection between Milgram ’s "Obedience to Authority" and the My Lai Massacre. According to Kelman & Hamilton‚ "Unquestioning obedience has been the cause of such disasters as the My Lai massacre and the Holocaust. People need to resist the dangerous web of influence from
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CS470 Network Engineering and Management Instructor: Dr. Howard Liu howard@mail.npu.edu Introduction 1-1 Chapter 1 Introduction A note on the use of these ppt slides: We re making these slides freely available to all (faculty‚ students‚ readers). They re in PowerPoint form so you can add‚ modify‚ and delete slides (including this one) and slide content to suit your needs. They obviously represent a lot of work on our part. In return for use‚ we only ask the following: q If you use
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Case scenario: Ice-Vanilla Fashion Line Ice-vanilla (IV) fashion line is a leading force in men’s and women’s fashion in Australia. Ice-vanilla (IV) stores bring customers the latest and inspired designs from the world’s fashion centers. The chain recently ran a promotion in which promotional codes were sent (via email and/or mail) to customers who are members of IV priority club throughout the country; these customers are referred to as the “VIP”‚ and they were invited to use their promotional
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Regression with a Binary Dependent Variable Binary Dependent Variables and the Linear Probability Model • • • Many of the decisions made by people are binary. What factors drive a person’s decision? This question leads to regression with a binary dependent variable. The binary choice problem is an example of models with limited dependent variables (see Appendix 9.3 for details). Note that the multiple regression model discussed earlier does not preclude a dependent variable from being binary
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Topic I – What is a Computer? Computer - is an electronic device that manipulates information‚ or "data." All types of computers consist of two basic parts: Hardware is any part of your computer that has a physical structure Software is any set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do Different Types of Computers Desktop Many people use desktop computers at work‚ home‚ school‚ or the library. They can be small‚ medium‚ or large in style‚ and usually sit on a desk. Laptop Laptops
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More than four decades have passed since Stanley Milgram conceived his work on obedience and authority. So what have we learned‚ as scientists‚ and as members of society? Stanley Milgram believed that obedience was central to the structure of everyday social life. Living in a society requires some system of authority and obedience‚ otherwise there would be chaos. Obedience under some circumstances is useful and helpful to everyone – e.g. when a motorist hears an ambulance driving behind them with
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