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    male participants during his experiment who he paid $4 an hour for their time‚ who he told that the experiment would be about a “learning and memory” game (Yogi‚2015). Milgram’s experiment was extremely assessed‚ mainly from an ethics point of view. The study was a catalyst in which experiments were ruled by. It was such experiments that lead to the British Psychological Society 2009. Applying a set of guidelines to make sure a code of good practice when leading experiments involving people. The ethics

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    heart’s bothering me. Let me out‚ I tell you. (Hysterically) You have no right to hold me here. Let me out!” (Milgram‚ 1965) You would hope that any decent human being would sympathise and realise that enough is enough. But Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment found that an astonishing 26 out of 40 (Milgram‚ 1963) of your average‚ everyday American men would shock an innocent human being to the point of death even after hearing these pleads. In 1963‚ psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to investigate

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    two-week experiment was abruptly interrupted after only six days. Zimbardo (1973) wanted to test

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    Activity 2 – Watson’s ‘Little Albert’ Experiment Independent Variable - The rat. Dependent Variable - Whether Little Albert cried or not. Unconditioned response - whether he was capable of showing fear or not. Neutral stimulus –The Rat Unconditioned Stimulus –the loud noise. Conditioned Stimulus- loud noise paired with any attempt that albert made to play with the rat Conditioned Response-caused the fearful behaviour Hypothesis – to test the belief that fears can be acquired through classical

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    During WWII a number of germans physicians conducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of prisoners in the concentration camps.(www.ushmm.org) they tortured the prisoners without their consent. Unethical medical experiments carried out during the Third Reich are divided into three categories. these are horrible things that the nazis did that are non human nad are hard to hear about. The first category is the military killing and murdering the jews and the homeless and the disabled

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    The Stanford prison experiment was similar to the Milgram experiment because both of the experiments focused on the responses of people when there are underneath authority. Zimbardo was interested in what would happen when you would put good people in an evil place. He also focused on if the situation out of the institution can control your behavior or does your attitude and values will overcome the situation from the negative environment. For Zimbardo negative environment‚ he had created a mock

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    The Milgram Experiment Milgram experiment was conducted at 1962 by Psychologist Stanley Milgram at Yale University. This experiment focused on how people will behave when their moral senses are conflicting with the authority. This experiment measured if people will obey authority or stand up what they believe for when their morals are challenged by a person with a greater social figure. These people who participated in the experiment were males in ages between twenty and forty. The volunteers were

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    Milgram experiment Have you ever wondered how people could do some of the heinous crimes that you have heard about in the news or in history? Have you ever thought what would possess someone to do some of the awful thing like the things they did in the holocaust? Well you aren’t alone in that thinking. Stanley Milgram a famous psychologist thought about the same thing. He wanted to figure out if what the Nazi soldiers was true when they said that they only did those awful things to the Jews because

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    was a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducting an experiment that focused on the conflict between obedience and morality. It showed that people have a strong tendency to obey with authority figures. Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an order even if it involved harming another individual. He was fascinated on how easily ordinary people could be influenced in committing evil. In order to start his experiment‚ he selected participants by newspaper advertising

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    Stanley Milgram Experiment The video I watched was a reenactment of the original Stanley Milgram experiment conducted by Derren Brown. In the experiment‚ the subjects were told that they were doing an experiment on how punishment could affect learning. They were tricked into thinking that they picked their own roles when they actually got the teacher roles and the actor got the learner role on purpose. They started the experiment by showing them what they were going to do to the “learner”. They were

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