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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One There were many ethical violations that occurred in the Zimbardo Prison Study. The first violation was deception. Although Zimbardo got consent from the participant‚ he did not fully explain what the participant would be going through. They were told that they would be participating in a mock prison study. However‚ they were not told that they would be arrested at their homes and striped searched upon arrival at the prison site. It is very important that you inform participants with sufficient
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In order to produce valuable research that can provide solid and beneficial results we need to carry out experiments in order to achieve this. However over the years multiple experiments that have been carried out have been ethically wrong and have resulted in the contenders of the experiments left mentally and physically damaged‚ and some even resulting in death‚ like dying the Nazis experiments when patients suffered all kinds of horrific mutilations (Cohen‚ 2010). Following this came the Nuremburg
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Conformity and Obedience The desire to be accepted and belong to a group is an undeniable human need. But how does this need affect an individual? Social psychologists have conducted numerous experiments and concluded that‚ through various forms of social influence‚ groups can change their members ’ thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behavior. In her essay "Group Minds‚" Doris Lessing discusses our paradoxical ability to call ourselves individuals and our inability to realize that groups define
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is filled with tragedies. We often view the source of evil as a murderer‚ con artist‚ or someone who commits fraud. However‚ what if there was evil inside of all of us? The evaluation of ourselves in terms of evilness starts with psychological experiments that test the theory that‚ when put into an authoritarian position‚ a normal person could grow to be evil. However‚ could this really be true if there wasn’t already capacity for evil in such a normal person? Macbeth is an example of our exposure
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to Sociology Dec 9‚ 2014 Professor Woods The Hawthorne Effect and the Stanford Prison Study The Hawthorne effect Researchers need to be aware that subjects’ behavior may change simply because they are getting special attention‚ as one classic experiment revealed. In the late 1930s‚ the Western Electric Company hired researchers to investigate worker productivity in its Hawthorne factory near Chicago. One experiment tested the hypothesis that increasing the available lighting would raise worker
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Social Influence: A Possible Lethal Weapon Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo states‚ "Unless we learn the dynamics of "why" we will never be able to counteract the powerful forces that can transform ordinary people into evil predators." Unfortunately‚ throughout history and even today the power of majority opinion has led to immoral acts of violence at a universal level. In this "advanced" society‚ the world is experiencing Darfur‚ Armenian‚ Bosnian‚ Karen‚ Cambodian and Rwandan genocides
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Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram conducted controversial experiments that had to deal with obedience. Zimbardo conducted an experiment in a mock prison that showed the roles of the guards and prisoners. Milgram conducted an experiment that tested how much pain a teacher would inflict on someone else at the command of an experimenter. The experiments that they conducted have been called wrong and unethical. Although the experiments vary from each other‚ they both changed the way the world looks
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Stanford Prison experiment was to study the behavior of normal people under a particular situation. The students who took part in the experiment would play the role of either guard or a prisoner in a mock prison. Most of the students that played as the guards of the mock prison became very cruel as they abused their power and authority over the prisoners. The students that played as the prisoners were frightened and became submissive to the prison guards. The students playing as the prison guards were
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Outline a key issue for obedience‚ discuss by using theories/studies from obedience for what happened in Abu Ghraib The Abu Ghraib prison is a notorious prison in Iraq‚ located in Abu Ghraib‚ near Baghdad. US soldiers were told to abuse and humiliate the prisoners by their leaders; this included chaining them up‚ treating them like dogs‚ and sometimes sexually harassing them. In April 2004 the abuses at Abu Ghraib were exposed with photos and videos showing US soldiers abusing naked Iraqis. On the
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