the nature of obedience is often portrayed in the media as strong evidence for an innate human predisposition to obedience‚ “resistance is futile” (Parker‚ 2007) when it comes to the human condition to obey – even in a “destructive” (Milgram‚ 1963) sense. As Milgram (1963) himself states‚ obedience as a concept is one of the most fundamental aspects of society‚ and much has frequently been made of drawing parallels with the atrocities carried out by the Third Reich and the data produced by Milgram’s
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One of Psychology’s Most Infamous Experiments). Stanley Milgram ran an experiment at yale that tested one’s willingness to follow orders from an . This experiment is more commonly known as the Milgram Experiment. Stanley Milgram randomly selected people who responded to the advertisement in the newspaper. Stanley had subject one in a room with him‚ and had another subject two sit in a room‚ that was not seen by subject one. Stanley Milgram ordered subject one to administer electric shocks to subject
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following World War 2‚ the subject became a popular one for researchers fascinated by the amount of obedience shown by the German soldiers in Nazi Germany when faced with orders that resulted in the torture and deaths of millions of Jews. Stanley Milgram‚ a Jew himself‚ decided that the only way to prevent any further occurrence of the Holocaust was to understand why the German soldiers had apparently blindly followed orders. The ‘Germans are different’ hypothesis Some commentators believed that
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ethical issue from the Milgram study is harm. Participants believed that they were giving another human being extreme shocks. Due to this participants experienced anxiety and extreme stress. Describe what steps Milgram took to deal with this ethical issue Milgram debriefed the participants afterwards.
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Milgram’s obedience to authority experiment countered the participant’s moral beliefs against the demands of authority. For this study‚ Milgram took out a newspaper ad that offered $4.50 for one hour of work‚ at Yale University‚ for a psychology experiment that sought to investigate memory and learning. Participants were told that the study would look at the relationship of punishment in
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References: Milgram‚ S. 1977‚ cited in Hollway‚ W. (2007) ‘Social Psychology: past and present’‚ in W. Hollway‚ H. Lucey and A. Pheonix (eds) Social Psychology Matters‚ Milton Keynes‚ Open University Press. Hollway‚ W (2007) ‘Social Psychology: past and present’‚ in
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Conformity and Obedience Task: outline and evaluate findings from conformity and obedience research and consider explanations for conformity (and non-conformity)‚ as well as evaluating Milgram’s studies of obedience (including ethical issues). The following essay will be about understanding what is meant by and distinguishing the differences between the terms conformity and obedience. It will show the evaluation of two key psychological studies which seek to explain why people do and do not conform
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Obedience is when an individual responds to an order from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant
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December 11‚ 2012 PSY 1012-Introduction to Psychology Professor Balkaran HOFLING HOSPITAL EXPERIMENT In 1966‚ the psychiatrist Charles K. Hofling conducted a two-part experiment that was inspired by Milgram’s research in obedience (Milgram‚ S.‚ 1963 & 1965). It consisted of a survey and field study on obedience in the nurse-physician relationship. Primarily‚ what happens when nurses are required to carry out a procedure which goes against her professional standards and secondly
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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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