Milgram’s research on obedience: how and why it can help student nurses The report aims to: Describe the main aspects of Milgram’s study on Obedience Explain why and how this research can be used to help prepare student nurses for working on hospital wards Contribute to the understanding of some of the challenges nurses may face in their working practices Background Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist from Yale University‚ conducted a series of experiments on obedience to explain some of the
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acts. Obedience is the process by which an individual complies with the instruction given by an authoritative figure. It is different to conformity which is when an individual changes their behaviour to fit in with a group. In obedience an instruction must be given to follow whereas in conformity there is no instructions given and individual chooses to change due to group pressure. It is important to conduct research into obedience
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Obedience and Responsibility In Stanley Milgram’s‚ “The Perils of Obedience”‚ Milgram states “The essence of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes‚ and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.” (Milgram 6) Through his experiments he shows how we obey commands against our better judgment. It my belief that we are generally obedient as long as someone else assumes responsibility for the outcome. Therefore
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More than four decades have passed since Stanley Milgram conceived his work on obedience and authority. So what have we learned‚ as scientists‚ and as members of society? Stanley Milgram believed that obedience was central to the structure of everyday social life. Living in a society requires some system of authority and obedience‚ otherwise there would be chaos. Obedience under some circumstances is useful and helpful to everyone – e.g. when a motorist hears an ambulance driving behind them with
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The Stanford Prison experiment‚ in my opinion is a remarkable experiment . It isn’t ethical in the least but the results that have emerged have exceeded even what Mr.Zimbardo set out to do. The aim of seeing whether people change their basic personalities ‚ moralities ‚ values when subjected to an external hostile environment has been successfully proven. My honest opinion is that ‚ at that time in 1971 ‚ it was rational enough to think about going out of the way to get an answer to a particular
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The experiment performed by Judy S. DeLoache concluded how the more noticeable an object is‚ the harder it becomes for children to appreciate the object as a symbol for something other than what it already is‚ making it obviously more difficult for the younger participants of the experiment that are attracted to the object to detect its relation to the different rooms it stands for. The hypothesis concluded by Delouche led to many other intriguing ideas of what the experiment produced‚ like how if
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Describe and evaluate Milgram’s study into obedience Milgram (1963)’s aim was to see the levels of obedience to authority‚ he recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers on newspaper to take part of a study of memory at Yale University. Each individual was paid $4.50 and was told that they would receive this money even if they quit during the study. The participants were always the teachers and confederates were the learners. The participants were told that if the learner got
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Throughout civilization‚ humans have used conformity and obedience to be accepted in society. They do this in order to be praised by superiors for following orders. This can happen with anything in their lives‚ from working‚ religion‚ and even at school. However‚ there is a darker side. Many of the greatest atrocities of human civilization have occurred because of the desire to be obedient and conform. Even if it means that they must violate their own values‚ they will do so in order to maintain
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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 experiment and both had a reason to do their experiments and to find out
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Milgram (1963) Past-paper Questions 1. In the Milgram study on obedience‚ the subjects were observed to show a lot of tension. a. Give one example of the behaviour of the subjects that indicated extreme tension. (2) Any one from: Fidgeting‚ agitation‚ asking if learner was being harmed‚ trying to stop‚ pausing. b. Milgram suggested that the tension was caused by the conflicts produced by the study. Outline one of these conflicts. (2) One
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