"Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living‚ and it is only the person dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond‚ with defiance or submission‚ to the commands of others. For many people‚ obedience is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency‚ indeed a potent impulse overriding training in ethics‚ sympathy‚ and moral conduct. The dilemma inherent in submission to authority is ancient
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Kayla McNutt Professor Williams English 1101-107 17 September 2013 The Obedience Test Stanley Milgram’s article‚ “The Perils of Obedience” focuses on the experiment he created to test society’s willingness to obey. In the experiment Milgram has one person who is a learner and another who delivers the shocks‚ the teacher. The focus of the experiment is on the person delivering the shocks because the “learner” is an actor. The learner’s role is to recite words to practice memorization.
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Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist whose research has been justified because of the knowledge psychologists have gained about why people obey. One of his most famous studies was conducted in 1963 on obedience. Obedience is compliance with an order‚ request‚ or law or submission to another’s authority. Milgram wanted to investigate why the German soldiers were very obedient to their authority figures and superiors and if that is an explanation for their mass killings in World War
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at Yale University‚ known as Stanley Milgram‚ provided one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. He conducted an experimentation concentrating on the dispute amongst a response to a direct order from a superior and the internal logic of what is right or wrong in one’s behaviors or motives‚ compelling towards right action. The principal objective was to see how far a human would go when an authority ordered them to kill an innocent individual. Milgram wanted to be precise if the Germans
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The Stanley Milgram experiment takes normal everyday people and gives them orders to do horrible things. The test is to see if someone would do an awful act just on the basis of someone telling them to. This experiment speaks to the ’nature of responsibility’ and to see if the subject will stop the experiment due to its dangerous nature. The subject is tricked into thinking they are the teacher‚ and the other person in the room‚ an actor‚ is the learner. The teacher will ask the learner a series
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In this film‚ Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. It was shown that ordinary people tend to follow orders given by an authority figure‚ even to the extreme of killing an innocent human being. But‚ being obedient to individuals‚ especially with authority is carved into a human being from the way they were raised. If the person with authority is recognized to be morally right‚ people tend to obey orders from
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prospered‚ giving way to a more in depth knowledge and understanding of people’s social interactions with one another and what drives those connections. 20th century psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ executed a series of Obedience to Authority test on random participants. As seen in the YouTube videos online and in class‚ Milgram’s study found that over 65% of the participants carried out the experiment‚ despite potentially hurting someone‚ due to the authority figure urging them to continue. This poses the
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In society‚ authority and its rules are respected by people in the community through acts of obedience. Authority is not only the government laws‚ but can also be people with a higher status‚ such as parents‚ teachers‚ or employment managers. As long as people obey those with authoritative power‚ they will receive rewards‚ or at least avoid punishment‚ even when the command requires unjust actions towards another person. For example‚ Hitler’s propaganda that made the Germans believe that the Jews
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(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 why millions of innocent people were slaughtered
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psychologist named Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment that concentrated in understanding “destructive obedience”. Milgram’s interest in researching “destructive obedience” came from the Holocaust. “Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose”. Milgram’s experiment proposed that the murder of innocent people occurred because of the obedience from the soldiers to their leader. The experiment focuses on analyzing on why the degree of obedience from each subject
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