ordinary people would act on instructions which would potentially harm others (Hogg and Vaughan 2010). In this situation destructive obedience can be seen as the instance when the outcome of obedience has the potential to harm others. Milgram’s experiment created a test situation whereby a person would act as a teacher and question a pupil on word association‚ for every wrong answer given the teacher would administer a level of electric shock. The level of shock was clearly labelled as such and increased
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Zimbardo. This experiment was to study of the psychological effects of perceived power. They set it up so the people had no medical issues‚ no mental issues‚ they set it us so all of the male students were mostly equal ; “More than 70 applicants answered our ad and were
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a tremendous capacity for harmony and conflict‚ peace and war‚ compassion and hatred. And it will be concerned with the conflict of Arabs and Israeli‚ the teaching of Christian and Buddhism‚ the case study of 9/11 terrorist attacks‚ the Stanford Prison Experiment and the abuse in Abu Ghraib‚ the biological viewpoint as evidence to demonstrate the statement. Human Conflict: Simon Laurence suggests that ‘conflict is inevitable’ while human beings get together in groups in a social way by any
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How psychological research has helped in the understanding of criminal behaviour Bandura (1961) - Bobo doll experiment - Albert Bandura created the bobo doll experiment in 1961‚ the aim of this experiment was to show that if children where witnesses to aggressive displays by an adult of some sort they would imitate this behaviour when given an opportunity. The tested group contained 36 young girls and 36 young boys all aged between 4 and 5 years which was then divided into 3 groups of 24 – the
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are good or bad‚ there is no right or wrong answer to this. We have learned these two meanings through different reinforcements taught to us by our peers around us. People of different places and eras have conducted experiments and surveys trying to prove both sides. Some experiments have made the news and showed us just how mad people can become‚ others are now used to tap into our minds and get our attention. The way we as living individuals interact with one another raises these wonders of the
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One of the experiments is the Stanford University prison experiment. This experiment was performed by Philip Zimbardo and a group of scientists wanted to see how normal people would act once they were put into a prison environment for two weeks whether they are a guard or a prisoner. The experiment was cut down to 6 days because of the information that the scientist discovered. Gladwell exclaimed “What
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Influence. However Sherif used an ambiguous test‚ it was impossible for Sherif to measure how far the light moved‚ and because it was impossible to provide a ‘correct’ answer‚ then it was also impossible to say for certain that the participants in the experiment had actually conformed. Also Sherif’s study lacked ecological validity as the test wouldn’t occur in everyday life and so the behaviour could be artificial. The other theory as to why people conform is Normative Social influence
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Asch’s experiment may be seen as unethical as the participants were put in a situation where they could feel uncomfortable due to the pressure to go against their own judgements. Asch used 50 male participants from a college in USA‚ the results may have been different
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miniature sociological experiment with her all white pupils. She creates a prejudicial segregation between her blue eyed and brown eyed pupils. Former are insisted to be the better than the latter. Consequently there is some instant hostility towards members of our group. This ruthless behavior seems strongly reminiscent of behavior also seen in animal kingdom. The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prisoner guard. The experiment quickly grew out
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another human being? Sure‚ it may seem impossible‚ but there is the ability to do evil inside all of us. Philip Zimbardo would know. He was a professor of psychology at Stanford University who ran the “Stanford Prison Experiment”‚ in which he recorded the violent and sadistic tendencies of male college students in the role of prison guards. He once said that “human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside… There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us‚ and we do
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