Argument Synthesis Option #1: Stanley Milgram vs. Diana Baumrind At very young ages‚ most of us are taught the importance of being obedient. Many of us may have even been rewarded for obedience and punished for disobedience. For most of us‚ being obedient creates a sense of accomplishment and pride‚ but what happens when we are put in a position where obeying a certain order results with violating ones own moral beliefs? In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a professor of psychology at Yale University
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Milgram‚ Stanley‚ “The Perils of Obedience.” Harper’s Magazine Dec. 1973: 62+. Print. Yale University psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ conducted a series of obedience experiments during the 1960’s to prove that for many people‚ obedience is a compelling drive overriding their own morality and sympathy. These experiments ended in shocking results. The Milgram experiment consisted of a teacher‚ learner‚ and the experimenter. The teacher being the actual subject while the others were actors.
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This idea that perhaps seemingly “good” people can be able to ignore what is obviously morally wrong led me to an article about an interesting experiment: The Milgram experiment. This experiment‚ developed and run by Stanley Milgram‚ took place at Yale University in 1961. Milgram’s experiment consisted of having volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds and occupations individually brought into a room and sat at a table with an array of levers. Across from this volunteer was another person who
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conformity‚ compliance‚ and obedience. Conformity is when one change as a result of the mere presence of other people‚ compliance is when one change because others ask for it‚and obedience is when one change because someone tells them to. 2. What were Milgram and Zimbardo’s findings? In Milgram’s initial obedience experiments he found all of the participants administered shocks to the confederate up to the 300-volts while 26 of the initial 40 participants administered fatal electric shocks. When he repeated
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1101-13 23 Febuary 2014 The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram In “The Perils of Obedience‚” Stanley Milgram develops a experiment that puts to test the the question ‚ “Will humans inflict extreme pain to others under the command of higher authority?”. The essay starts off with Milgram explaining the history of obedience by exhibiting the loyalness that was portrayed by followers in historical documents. The experiment that Milgram set up was simple. He elected an “experimenter” who is the
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Imagine yourself being shocked as an act of you incorrectly answering a question. In the Milgram Experiment‚ 40 men were recruited using newspaper ads in order to preform a test that would question human obedience. The question posed was: would they comply with an authority figures commands because they were stressed to‚ or would they comply because they thought it was the noble thing to do? The results clearly show that under authority‚ people will comply with what they are told to do even if they
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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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“Behavioral Study of Obedience” Stanley Milgram Shashi Bhatt “Behavioral Study of Obedience” Stanley Milgram The Milgram’s experiment on Obedience to authority figure was a series of experiment in social psychology conducted by Stanley Milgram. The experiment measured the willingness of study participants to obey authority figure‚ which instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. It has been understood before this experiment that people tend to obey
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Solomon E. Asch was a pioneer of social psychology; Solomon was born in Warsaw‚ Poland on September 14‚ 1907‚ came to the United States in 1920 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1932. Asch had explored studies in psychology dealing with gestalt‚ relation-orientated approaches to perceptions‚ association‚ learning‚ thinking‚ and metaphor. Solomon Asch’s most famous experiments had been the conformity experiment (About Solomon Asch). Conformity – the change in a person’s behavior to
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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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