Unit: Conformity and Obedience Produce a written description/evaluation of Sherif’s (1935) and Asch’s (1956) studies of conformity‚ with an emphasis on the reasons why people conformed in the experiments. Conformity is defined by Aronson (1988‚ cited in Psychology for A Level‚ pg. 43) as ‘a change in a persons behaviour or opinions as a result of real or imagined pressure from a person or group of people. Sherif’s (1935) study of the autokinetic effect‚ which was an optical illusion‚ is
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After learning about the Stanley Milgram experiment‚ I found myself questioning why and how the majority of the subjects that participated in the experiment were willing to inflict apparent pain and injury on an innocent person‚ and found myself curious as to how I would react should I but put in the same situation. I believe that the most significant reason for this disturbing absence of critical thinking and moral responsibility is because the subjects involved in the experiment were blinded by
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Evaluating Essay The two articles “Student Grades and Average Ratings of Instructional Quality: The Need for Adjustment” and “What if Milgram Controlled Student Grades? A Simple Game for Teaching the Concept of Authority” that we had to read and annotate I found very interesting. The game they played and the statistics they showed in the two articles were so true. You see these things happening all the time through school‚ at home‚ and even at a work place. At school it tends to be some ridiculous
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between being obedient or following their own morals. Usually‚ obedience wins because of the emphasis society has placed on it. Most of human’s actions are a result of a previous action in which they felt necessary to do. Both authors‚ Stanley Milgram of “The Perils of Obedience” and Ian Parker of “Obedience” agree that‚ humans‚ as a whole‚ will not respond the same in every similar situation because their actions are usually a result of obedience or of their current situation‚ rather than their personality
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In the beginning of the documentary it showed an experiment that was conducted in 1961‚ by a psychologist from Yale University named Dr. Stanley Milgram. The purpose of this “obedience study” was to observe an individual’s willingness to inflict pain when ordered to do so. The participants were required to use a machine to shock other person in a different room. What the participants did not know that the shocks were fake and the victim was an actor. Despite the fact that the participants knew that
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and evaluate two pieces of Psychological Research In 1963 professor Stanley Milgram carried out a ‘Study of Obedience to Authority’ in which he aimed to answer the question‚ “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders" (Milgram‚ 1974). To do this. Milgram elaborated on two theories‚ one of which was Solomon Asch’s 1956 ‘conformity experiments’. In 1963 Milgram put out an advertisement asking for men‚ aged between 20 and 50‚to volunteer to
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The Three Levels of Obedience Julia B. Kulakowski Montessori Institute of San Diego The three levels of obedience are explained by Dr. Maria Montessori after long observations of children of multiple ages in her classroom. She defines the three of obedience as first‚ an ability to obey‚ but not all the time. Secondly an ability to obey at all times after developing their own will. Finally being able to obey consistently‚ moreover to follow another person which the child
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Obedience to Authority Example in Real Life of Obedience to Authority Millions of people were killed in Nazi Germany in concentration camps but Hitler couldn’t have killed them all‚ nor could a handful of people. What made all those people follow the orders they were given? Were they afraid‚ or was there something in their personality that made them like that? In order to obey authority‚ the obeying person has to accept that it is legitimate for the command to be made of them. Obedience is a
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development of the will‚ which in its turn has made obedience possible.” (Montessori‚ 1988‚ p.239) Montessori believed that the disorderly and disobedient acts of a young child where from those actions that he/she had yet to develop and so where unable to control successfully. Discipline and obedience could not therefore be inflicted on a young child as had been traditionally thought‚ nor could it be sustained through rewards and punishments. “Obedience is seen as something which develops in the child
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Total Domination and Forced Obedience Total domination and forced obedience is not a constructive or efficient way to lead others. For example‚ Lao-tzu says that a good leader or government should let their citizens or subjects live their lives the way they want to. “When the Master governs‚ the people are hardly aware that he exists.” (A World Of Ideas pg. 22) Hannah Ardent is the exact opposite. She says “Total domination‚ which strives to organize the infinite plurality and differentiation
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