Outline: Obedience Synthesis I. Background Information: Obedience defined by Andrew Colman‚ in human behavior‚ is a form of “social functions in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authory figure". Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance‚ which is behavior influenced by peers‚ and from conformity‚ which is behavior intended to match that of the majority. Obedience can be seen as both a sin and a virtue. No human social organization can function without
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used to bind and build. Brooks believes that Lincoln and Jefferson embodied how strong and powerful a person should be instead we have leaders now that are incapable of becoming great leaders. The assumptions David Brooks had made were about how authority was different back in the days and how it has digressed now. David Brooks argument was effective because he believe
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Stanley Milgram believed that humans have a tendency to obey other people who are in position of authority over them even if‚ in obeying‚ they violate their personal codes of moral and ethical behavior. Milgram believed that in some situations‚ the human tendency to obey is so deeply ingrained and powerful that it cancels out a person’s ability to behave morally‚ ethically‚ or even sympathetically. In 1963 Milgram carried out an experiment. He hypothesized that individuals who would never intentionally
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The Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram‚ a famous social psychologist‚ and student of Solomon Asch‚ conducted a controversial experiment in 1961‚ investigating obedience to authority (1974). The experiment was held to see if a subject would do something an authority figure tells them‚ even if it conflicts with their personal beliefs and morals. He even once said‚ "The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation
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Stanley Milgram: ’electric shock’ experiments (1963) - also showed the power of the situation in influencing behaviour. 65% of people could be easily induced into giving a stranger an electric shock of 450V (enough to kill someone). 100% of people could be influenced into giving a 275V shock. The Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram (1963) Experiment: Focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Investigate: Whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority
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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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The Milgram Experiment Outline Topic: The Milgram experiment I) The experiment A) Who was involved with the experiment? B) How they got participants C) What the subjects thought was happening i)Learning Task ii) Memory Study iii) Electric shock for wrong answer iv) “Prods” to continue the shocks D) What actually happened i) It was a test for obedience not memory ii) Vocal response from the victims
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Dutcher 1 English 1013 10/18/10 In nineteen sixty-three‚ Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment on obedience to authority figures. It was a series of social psychology experiments which measured the willingness of the study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience and confronted them with emotional distress. The experiment resulted in twenty-six out of forty of the participants administering the final
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The Milgram experiment The Milgram experiment came about by a Yale University psychologist by the name of Stanley Milgram. The experiment was to test how well the study participants were and the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with what they thought was right. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative even when acting against their own better judgment and desires. Stanley
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interaction Milgram’s experiment is to study the effect of obedience to authority. Study was performed to determine what factors influenced people to submit to authority and to what extent people conform an order against their conscience despite knowing it causes distress and harm to another person. McLeod‚ S. (1970). 40 male participants between age of 20 to 50 years old from various occupation ranging from unskilled to professional were recruited for the experiment. They were rewarded $4.50
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