Yierfan Abula ENG 111 M&W Professor Hoke 11/21/2014 Obedience and the Authority If a person in a position of authority ordered you to deliver a 400-volt electrical shock to another person‚ would you follow orders? Most people‚ I think‚ would answer this question with an absolute No. However‚ Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of the obedience experiments during the 1960s demonstrated surprising results. These experiments offer a powerful and disturbing look
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English 1A 20 June 2012 Sphere of Authority Stanley Milgram‚ a Yale psychologist‚ stunned the world when he stated that “perhaps the most fundamental lesson of our study is that ordinary people doing their jobs‚ and without particular hostility on their part‚ can become agents in a terrible destructive process.” Milgram’s stunning conclusions‚ which were derived from his experiments‚ proved that obedience is one of the basic elements in the structure of social life. The proximately of the victim
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Discuss the ethics of Milgram’s obedience study. In the years 1961-1962‚ Stanley Milgram - Yale University psychologist‚ conducted the first of the obedience experiments‚ which were also called "shock" studies. The research was invented to check if the people would be ready to harm somebody just to meet the requirements of the experiment. This essay will be focused on the ethical side of the study. Firstly‚ it will be presented how the experiment was performed‚ by describing all of the necessary
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book Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman‚ the cover typically illustrates a character from the first story‚ shock-headed Peter. “Just look at him! There he stands‚ With his nasty hair and hands. See! his nails are never cut; They are grimed as black as soot; And the sloven‚ I declare‚ Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see Shock-headed Peter.” (Hoffman‚ 3) Shock-headed Peter has been popular and influential through many generations‚ so much that it has been spoofed‚ parodied
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learners. So‚ he then asked the participants to draw the slips from hat for differentiate them as teachers and learners. There then taken to an adjacent room where the learner is strapped to an electric chair. The teacher were provided with simulator shock generator which have thirty levels
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authority figure. To carry out the experiment‚ Milgram designed a shock generator- a large electronic device with 30 switches labeled with voltage levels from 30 volts increasing at 15-volt intervals to 450 volts. These switches were labeled in groups that described their level of shock: slight shock‚ moderate shock‚ severe shock‚ etc. This machine was actually a simulated shock generator‚ and no one actually received any shocks. The subjects of this study were 40 males between the ages of 20 and
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teacher/subject is seated in front of a shock generator labeled with terms like “Slight Shock‚” “Moderate Shock” and “Danger: Sever Shock.” The final two switches are labeled simply with a menacing “XXX.” The teacher/subject is to ask the learner a series of word pairing questions and when answered incorrectly‚ the learner will receive a “shock” delivered by the teacher. The learner will in fact receive no shock but this fact is hidden from the subject. The shock levels starts at 30 volts and increasing
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then mixed with competent E. coli cells followed by heat shock and the streaking of transformed cells on two different types of agar plate (LB and LB+ampicillin). The extracted plasmid DNA is important as it contains ampicillin-resistant gene. As such‚ E. coli cells that have taken up this plasmid DNA will be resistant to ampicillin and survive‚ hence growth of colonies will be observed on the agar plates. One of the rationales behind heat shock method is to create pores‚ allowing uptake of plasmid
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contains a lot of fictional elements‚ it powerfully conveyed enough of the essence of the true story for its writer‚ George Bellak‚ to receive Honorable Mention in the American Psychological Association’s media awards for 1977. . . . . . Milgram’s "shock machine" still exists. It can be found at the Archives of the History of American Psychology at the University of Akron. For a number of years‚ beginning in 1992‚ it was part of a traveling psychology exhibit created by the American Psychological
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inflation. Shocks by their very nature are unexpected and therefore the monetary authority can only adjust policy accordingly in hindsight. For example the Bank of England can only change the base rate once a month hence there will always be a time difference between when the economy experiences the shock and when the Bank can react. In theory however‚ the central bank (CB) does have considerable control over inflation. To begin with‚ consider a temporary unexpected positive inflationary shock. (I chose
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