In Fromm essay” Disobedience as a psychological and moral problem”‚ he discusses and compares the different kinds of obedience and disobedience‚ and how they can have a positive or negative impact on the human society. There are many physiological comforts to obedience. For example‚ when a person obeys the law‚ or is obedient to their superior it leaves them with a feeling of accomplishment. They feel as though they have succeeded in their said job‚ therefore they are accepted within society. Some
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In this article "The Pearls of Obedience"‚ Stanley Milgram asserts that obedience to authority is a common response for many people in today’s society‚ often diminishing an individuals beliefs or ideals. Stanley Milgram designs an experiment to understand how strong a person’s tendency to obey authority is‚ even though it is amoral or destructive. Stanley Milgram bases his experiment on three people: a learner‚ teacher‚ and experimenter. The experimenter is simply an overseer of the experiment
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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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conducted the Behavioral study of obedience experiment. Milgram conducted this experiment to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure instructing them to perform acts that conflicted with their moral view of right and wrong. The participants in the Milgram experiment were 40 men recruited using newspaper ads. The researchers hoped that the level of shock that the participants were willing to deliver would be used as the measure of obedience. Milgram developed an intimidating
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Obedience is the act of practicing obeying; dutiful or submissive compliance. Humans have an instinct to obey because of the role authority plays. Milgram’s research proves my point in his case study that involved shocks of voltage. From birth‚ we learn that everything has a consequence or punishment after an action. Children learn simple philosophies in their youngest age such as obeying their parent’s requests. Something as simple as eating vegetables has a consequence. A reward gives the child
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CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE * CONFORMITY * A change in behavior or belief as the result of real or imagined group pressure. – Meyer * is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. * can also be simply defined as “yielding to group pressures”. * is often used to indicate an agreement to the majority position‚ brought about either by * a desire to ‘fit in’ * or be liked (normative) * or because of a
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Conformity and Obedience Starting from a very young age‚ it is considered the norm to obey and to conform. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate a study for conformity and obedience. Conformity can be defined as a change in one self‚ when one gives in to group pressure‚ in order to fit in to society. Obedience on the other hand is when you are told what to do. The difference between the two are‚ when we conform it is usually down to peer pressure. Where as in obedience you are taking orders from
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The Theory Of Obedience The purpose of this essay is to describe and evaluate Milgram ’s theory on obedience. The essay will outline the theory‚ the famous experiment‚ the findings from the experiment‚ and the subsequent studies that have strengthened and weakened the plausibility of the theory. What is the Theory Of Obedience? Milgram (1974) stated: ’A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do‚ irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience
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Psychology Homework Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Milgram obedience study. Should the study have taken place? Milgram’s study is a very controversial study as it broke many ethical guidelines and has many methodological issues‚ but it also had many strengths. One strength of the Milgram study on obedience is that the experiment was reliable as it can be replicated and the results are consistent. The fact that the experiment was a Lab experiment makes the study even more reliable
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Obedience Obedience is the process which leads a person – or an animal –‚ after listening to an order or a demand from an authoritative figure‚ to obey regardless of the consequences or moral implications derived from following that order or demand. The way in which this demand is followed can very; it can be in an active manner‚ in this case the obedient individual will do what they are told to; or in a passive one‚ where the individual will refrain from doing something‚ for the only reason that
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