compliance with society’s accepted behavior and rules. Experiments Asch Experiment in Conformity Solomon Asch 8 male students‚ 7 confederates and 1 real participant Confederates gave an obviously wrong answer Went along with group because believed the group was better informed than him ( informative conformity) or because wanted to fit in with other ‘participants’ (normative conformity) Milgrams Shock Experiment Stanley Milgram‚ questioned results of Holocaust Participant took role of ‘teacher’
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resources. The Asch and Milgram experiments show that all three of the above theories have some truth to it. We can see how Symbolic Interaction influenced the majority of people to listen to the authority figure telling the teacher to do something unethical when the teacher himself is an authority figure. This probably stemmed from a symbol of an authority figure like an overbearing father in the subjects life that caused the teacher to give in to the authority figure in the Milgram experiment. Functional
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policy perspectives‚ examine the view that family influences underlie the development of anti-social behaviour (eg Criminality) Criterion 1 Psychological knowledge to incorporate relevant studies on conformity and obedience – e.g .Asch‚ Milgram‚ Zimbardo‚ Hoffling. (Psychology books) Psychological knowledge may include reference to parenting styles: authoritarian‚ democratic and laissez faire. (child development books) Arguments for and against the family – e.g. Talcott Parsons‚ William
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He wanted to see to what extent participants would go in order to obey and authoritative figure. He has 40 male participants between the age of 20 and 50 and paid them to take part of the study. There were two confederates of Milgram‚ one of the experimenters played a biology teacher and the other a learner. The teacher was the chosen participant who then had to send (fake) electric shocks to the learner. The shocks started from 15 volts all the way up to fatal shocks of 450 volts
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18 trials took place of which the confederates gave the wrong answer in 12 (critical trials.)Asch found that 74% of the participant’s conformed at least once and 32% was the mean average rate of conformity. Asch also found that common participant behaviour included: sweating‚ coughing nervously‚ turning red and shifting uncomfortably in seats. In terms of whether or not the research carried out by Asch was worthwhile or not one may argue that it did generate subsequent research and he did find
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Professor Foth English 1A.4 October 3rd 2011 The Experiment In our society we are prone to obey to our authority in order to follow through our obedience because of the rolls we take. In both Stanley Milgram and Phillip Zimbardo’s experiment‚ “The Perils of Obedience” and “The Stanford Prison Experiment”‚ many people have a brighter understanding about how human behavior can be cause by authorities. They had different structures of how to do their own
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carried out the slaughter of the Jews ruthless in nature or were they responding normally like any other human being when given an order by an authority figure? A movie titled A Few Good Men sheds light on this question with the help of Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo’s research on obedience
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The size of the group‚ Asch discovered‚ was a deciding factor to the effectiveness of a group which usually peeked with three individuals versus one individual (657). Milgram’s initial experiment‚ performed on Yale undergraduates‚ showed up to 60% were completely obedient to the authority (634). Further replicated experiments showed similar results‚ such as‚ “one scientist in Munich found 85% of his subject to be obedient” (Milgram 635). The results are vile to think that conformity
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Milgram’s aim was to research how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities‚ for example‚ Germans in WWII. (McLeod 2007) The first ethical dilemma with Milgram’s experiment is deception. The experimenter deceived the participants‚ who were made to believe that they were truly inflicting pain on the learners and were purposely put in a position of high stress
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person willing to inflict harsh punishments on innocent people while following orders. Night by Elie Wiesel‚ The Milgram Shock Experiment‚ and the stanford prison experiment shows how obedience to an authority can cause people to stray from their conscience. In the Stanford Prison experiment the men were deindividualized from the start of the experiment. The men obeyed orders from Zimbardo to have them stripped of all personal possessions and the prisoners were given a jumpsuit and bedding and assigned
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