Evaluate research on conformity making reference to 2 studies (22 marks) Conformity is the tendency to adjust one’s thoughts‚ feelings or behaviour in ways that are in agreement with those of a particular individual or group‚ or with accepted standards about how a person should behave in specific situations (social norms). It is also the key ways that a society or culture passes down its values or behaviours to its peers through an indirect form of social influence. Deusch and Gerald (1995) first
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Professor Foth English 1A.4 October 3rd 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
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In The Perils of Obedience‚ Stanley Milgram expresses his findings of an experiment he conducted trying to prove the lengths people will go to be obedient to authority. The first experiments included a group of undergraduates from Yale. The experiments involved three subjects: the experimenter‚ the “teacher” and the “learner”. The teacher would read off a series of words. The learner‚ who is strapped to an electric chair‚ would be required to remember the words associated to one another. If the
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Research supports Milgram’s evidence‚ that without deception he would have had incorrect results. Rosenhan (1966) copied the study and people had heard of Milgram’s experiment and Rosenhan’s results were 70% as participants thought it was true. Milgram in his defence again explained if the participants were to know the truth that the experiment was not real‚ the results would have been different and this would have affected the end result. The ethical concerns in the experiment were also argued
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DM summary Lecture 1 Question 1 = Assume you would like to subscribe to ‘Time’ magazine * internet only subscription * print only subscription * print and internet subscription = context question * Choices are made in a context * Everything is relative ‚ without context choices (in absolute terms) mean nothing * We compare jobs with jobs‚ wines with wines‚ lovers with lovers Question 2 = Anchoring and adjustment When was Atilla defeated by estimation
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all of us. We used five the techniques as described in the text of Plous; consensus‚ dialectic‚ dictator‚ Delphi and collective. (1993). Doing so we believed that following these techniques that we would arrive at a more accurate group judgment. Asch found that one of the situational
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Rodrigo G. Vocabulary Anal stage: the stage at which children advocate erotic pleasure with the elimination process Archetype: an inherited idea‚ based on the experiences of one’s ancestors‚ which shapes one’s perception of the world Altered states of consciousness: conscious level‚ preconscious level‚ and unconscious level Amnesia: a loss of memory that may occur after a blow to the head or as a result of brain damage Biofeedback: the process of learning to control bodily states with the
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experiment that was conducted by Stanley Milgram. This experiment was created to prove that people will do what they are told even when it comes to causing great harm to another person for virtually no reason. In the writing “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You‚” Theodore Dalrymple admits that “By a series of clever manipulations‚ Milgram proved that it was obedience to authority that led people to behave in this fashion.” Although Dalrymple suggests that Milgram manipulated his subjects‚ he still admits
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through the eyes of a older man. With the war over we still search the reasons why so many millions were able to take such horrible orders and carry them out just because they were told to. In recent years we have been able to turn the findings of the Milgram Experiment and a experiment done by a group of students at Stanford to try and understand more how people make choices. When you look at Frankl’s book and the two experiments it can be hard to decipher what each really means‚ if humans do have the
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carrying out orders made by Hitler. Hitler’s atrocities‚ which included concentration camps‚ stealing property from Jews‚ and mutilation of gypsies and homosexuals‚ were all done by obedience. The questioning of obedience to authority is what lead Milgram (1963) to conduct his own experiment. His main aim through this experiment was to observe how far a person would go when it came to causing harm to another individual due to the obedience of an authoritative figure. Milgram’s experiment studied the
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