from Social Experiments The following experiments were unethical to the participants. Some of their treatment was inhumane. The experiments broke moral principles and rules of conduct. There are many examples and evidence when these following events occurred. Such as in The Milgram Obedience experiment the participants were put through intentional deception. In A Class Divided: Jane Elliot‚ the participants (students) were put into high stress. In The Harlow Affection experiment the approach
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Obedience CheckPoint Diadelisse Davila University of Phoenix Social Psychology PSY/285 Dr. April Kindall August 28‚ 2014 Obedience CheckPoint Milgram’s aim was to find a way to understand why people obey to an authority figure. By gaining helpers he advertised in the local newspapers‚ asking if people would participate in a study regarding the effect of punishment on learning. The ‘real’ participants in the study considered that they were casually given the role of either the ‘teacher’
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Discuss Research Into Obedience (12 marks) Milgram did a lab experiment‚ varying different situational pressures to see which had the greatest effect on obedience. He told 40 male volunteers that it was a study of how punishment affects learning. After drawing lots‚ the real participant was assigned the role of ’teacher’. The learner was a confederate. The teachers job was to administrate a learning task and deliver ’electric shocks’ to the learner (in another room) if he got a question wrong
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social influence (e.g.‚ Asch‚ 1952; Milgram‚ 1974; Zimbardo‚ 1971) tell us about group effects on individual behaviour? Social influence is the effect one person or a group has on the attitudes or behaviour of another. There are several different kinds of social influence. This essay the focuses on conformity - yielding publicly to group pressure‚ and sometimes yielding privately also (e.g. Asch (1951)); also on obedience – behaving as instructed‚ for example Milgram (1974). Studies of these kinds
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Running Head: CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Hitler’s silent advantage? – Control of people in a totalitarian regime Laura Frei In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Psychology 130-001 January 21‚ 2015 Bev Lenihan‚ Instructor Camosun College Hitler’s silent advantage? – Control of people in a totalitarian regime People tend to follow social norms when eating and watching TV. It lies in the nature of a human being to focus on the actions of others and act in groups. This orientation on
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is a time where we may judge and not agree while others may not pass a judgment and be in agreement. In the study of Psychology we look to a researchers finding to prove the way we respond to emotional‚ environmental and societal changes. Stanley Milgram a researcher that set out on the behalf of Yale University conducted a study to determine how obedient we become when driven or motivated by authority to inflict mild to severe pain is applied. Milgram’s study creates a huge debate in ethics. The
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An obedience experiment directed by Milgram (1974) involved the participant in a laboratory environment as the role of a teacher‚ pertaining to the effects of punishment on learning (Gibson 2011). Participants were deceived by being told that as part of the experiment they were required to administer an electric shock to the ‘learner’. The participants’ had observed the ‘learners’ (who were confederate in the experiment) in an adjoining room being secured to a chair. The participants were informed
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© Myles Cook‚ 2006 Milgram’s Agency Theory of Obedience One of the areas that have fascinated psychologists is that of obedience – why does someone obey another? In the period 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
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to disturb the experiment. Third participants assumed discomfort was mild and temporary. Last aspect is that participants can discuss choices with someone else. Describe one ethical issue raised in Milgram’s study. One 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
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if Hitler asked You to Electrocute a Stranger would you? In the beginning‚ Stanley Milgram was worried about the Nazi problem. He doesn’t worry much about the Nazis anymore. He worries about you and me‚ and‚ perhaps‚ himself a little bit too. Stanley Milgram is a social psychologist‚ and when he began his career at Yale University in 1960 he had a plan to prove‚ scientifically‚ that Germans Philip Meyer © Philip Meyer. Originally published in Esquire‚ February 1970. artwork © Michael Leonard
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