Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist whose research has been justified because of the knowledge psychologists have gained about why people obey. One of his most famous studies was conducted in 1963 on obedience. Obedience is compliance with an order‚ request‚ or law or submission to another’s authority. Milgram wanted to investigate why the German soldiers were very obedient to their authority figures and superiors and if that is an explanation for their mass killings in World War
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person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act." –Stanley Milgram‚ (1974) This report is about obedience to authority which will take you into Milgram’s experiment and how this study applies to trainee police officers. The following experiment was designed to test obedience to authority conducted by the psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1961. He was motivated by the Jewish genocide in the second world war and tried to answer the question "Could
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real intention of a study from participants or taking steps to mislead them at the start. Milgram used the second ploy‚ deliberately lying to participants about the genuine reason for a study. He also used stooges and the use of stooges always means deception has been used. However‚ is deception necessary? Milgram would argue that his experiments could not have taken place without it. Imagine if Milgram had said at the start‚ ‘Mr Wallace is really a stooge‚ who will scream a bit but will receive
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learning. In truth‚ Yale University’s psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to study the willingness of subjects to obey an authority figure while this authority figure made the subjects perform acts that were in conflict with their moral conscience. The question guiding this experiment was asking to figure out to what extent obedience‚ behavior and conformism is persistent while performing acts that were conflicting with personal conscience. Milgram study investigated on the effects of authority on obedience
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South Asia Presentation Handout Foundations Period: 10‚000-600 B.C.E. Harappan Civilization General 2500-1000 B.C.E. First known civilization in South Asia The Aryans Come Interaction 1500 B.C.E. They come up with basic ideas in India that last for much of World History Vedic Age Cultural 1500-1000 B.C.E. Famous cultural stories are made‚ and are used as a base for Hinduism Classical Period: 600 B.C.E.-600 C.E. Buddhism Cultural 500’s B.C.E. Creation
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In this article "The Pearls of Obedience"‚ Stanley Milgram asserts that obedience to authority is a common response for many people in today’s society‚ often diminishing an individuals beliefs or ideals. Stanley Milgram designs an experiment to understand how strong a person’s tendency to obey authority is‚ even though it is amoral or destructive. Stanley Milgram bases his experiment on three people: a learner‚ teacher‚ and experimenter. The experimenter is simply an overseer of the experiment
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1) “Milgrams`s research is of no value because it was conducted in a laboratory” Discuss the methodological difficulties faced by social psychologists conducting research in a laboratory (5 marks) |Have you? Please tick. | | | |Made your point
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those who follow a leader “How far would you go for them?”. This question has been answered many times by not only the people in these situations‚ like those in Democratic Kampuchea (Pina et al.‚ 2010‚ p. 291)‚ but also scientists like Stanley Milgram (Milgram‚ 1965‚ p. 59). These assurances are important to study to be able to understand the psychological effects that these types of relationships have. The first thing that will be examined is Stanley Milgram’s original experiment. Milgram’s experiment
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Social Psychology Week 6 Writing Assignment 1: Question 1 of 1: | | | Theoretical Perspectives on Gender Introduction: A local college is organizing a seminar on gender bias in the workplace. You have been invited to the seminar as a guest lecturer. You have been specifically requested to deliver a lecture on the different perspectives of gender‚ including biology‚ socialization‚ and social roles. Task: Prepare an outline for the lecture‚ including notes on different perspectives
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(laissez-faire in French means “leave it alone”). (Macionis‚ 2013. P110). The Danish government adopted this style of leadership and allowed cannabis to be smoked and allowed open prostitution. 3.What does the research by Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram show us about the ability of social groups to affect the opinions and behavior of group members? The research showed that people when under pressure by peers or an authoritative figure conform. Solomon Asch (1952) recruited students for what he told
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