The Controversy of Obedience A classic experiment on the natural obedience of individuals was designed and tested by a Yale psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram. The test forced participants to either go against their morals or violate authority. For the experiment‚ two people would come into the lab after being told they were testing memory loss‚ though only one of them was actually being tested. The unaware individual‚ called the “teacher” would sit in a separate room‚ administering memory related
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In May‚ 1962 an experiment was done at Yale University. The experiment was called Milgram’s Obedience to Authority. The participants of the experiment was forty males. The male’s ages were between twenty and fifty years old. Along‚ with the age differences they all had different occupations. Once the experiment begins the learner is tied down to a chair. The teacher is then put in a room opposite of the learner and is not able to see the learner. The purpose of the learner is to remember the line
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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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carrying out orders in which they possibily may have contemplated in carrying out. Just like guards Zimbardo’s study they portrayed the prioneros as bad guys due to the shackles along with other symbolic represetantions in which the guards and Zimbardo himself allowed guards
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Indecisive disobedience occurs when the individuals in the experiment try to disobey in different ways‚ but they were ineffective at it. I believe that the Milgram experiment was more about indecisive disobedience‚ rather than destructive obedience. The subjects of Milgram’s experiment were consciously aware that what they were doing was wrong‚ since it brought great pain to the “learner‚” but because they were instructed by a legitimate authority to continue the experience‚ they obeyed the experimenter
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Stanford Prison experiment drew the attention of how adapting to a situation can make a person become someone else‚ leaving behind who they previously were. Social Psychologist‚ Philip G. Zimbardo‚ highlighted the presentation of classic psychological research on situational forces on human behaviour. Zimbardo debated that the situation is the core in creating individuals to act in ways they would have not acted before. The extent to how situational forces can explain evil acts by the individuals
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illustrates that he only did what he did‚ followed orders‚ because he was told to and he felt like an agent to Adolf Hitler. Milgram also posed the idea of something called moral strain. This is when you obey an order although it goes against your morals‚ you feel that what you are doing is wrong but you have no choice. An example of this is in the study of obedience carried out by Milgram. The participants objected to shocking learners by saying that they wouldn’t do it and consistently standing up to avoid
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Milgram (1963) vs. Meeus and Raaijmakers (1985) (12 marks) The aim of both studies was to test obedience. Meeus and Raaijmakers were testing psychological violence‚ where Milgram was testing physical violence. The procedure was similar‚ as in both experiments the participants were paid volunteers and had to give an increasing punishment. The Dutch experiment was conducted in a natural experiment though and and Milgram’s one - in a university. The results of both studies support each other’s
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inflicted upon another person. "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram reports on his controversial experiment that test how far individuals would go in obeying orders‚ even if carrying out those orders caused serious harm to others. This experiment caused a lot of controversy and one woman in particular believed that this experiment was immoral. Diana Baumrind’s "Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience" says that Milgram "entrapped" (329) his subjects and potentionally harmed his subjects
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her to do. People tend to follow orders of an authority‚ and this can sometimes result in a negative effect. An example would include all those people who were obedient to Hitler‚ and killed innocent people in the Holocaust. For instance‚ Stanley Milgram‚ in his article‚ Perils of Obedience‚ writes about his experiment‚ of how people obey an authority‚ neglecting their conscience‚ and how this can be a threat to real life experiences. In contrast‚ another Psychologist‚ Diana Baumrind‚ in her article
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