How Do People Respond To Authority?

The experiment was about people will respond to authority. In the experiment the teacher who is to obey the order of the authority who was the experimenter also the learner who was the recipient of incentive from the teacher. The teacher was given lists of words to teach the student, (learner) and the teacher have to read the original word given him also, read the four answers. What the learner would do was to press a button to show his answer. And, if the answer was wrong, the teacher would shock the learner, and increase the electric shock to 15 volt increments for every wrong answer. Also, if the learner gets the right answer, the teacher will read the next pair of word. What happened in the experiment that resulted into a higher level of authority was that the teacher did exactly what he was told to do by the
Moreover, at one point the teacher decided to stop the experiment, and he was given a series of spoken prods by the transformer, in his command. Saying, “please continue, the experiment requires that you continue and it is absolutely essential that you continue, you have no other choice, you must go on.” Also if the teacher makes particular comments, the experimenter will give exceptional pushes. Another thing was that, if the teacher said “that the learner clearly wants to stop,” the experimenter responded, "Whether the learner likes it or not, you must go on until he has learned all the word pairs correctly, so please go on." I think what was ethical in the experiment was the teachers obey the authority of the experimenter. Also, deception, the participants actually believed they were shocking a real person and were unaware the learner was a confederate of Milgram’s. Also Milgram interviews the participants to find out the effect of the experiment afterward, and some of them glad to be a part of the experiment and some wished they weren’t