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    Milgram (1963) Past-paper Questions 1.          In the Milgram study on obedience‚ the subjects were observed to show a lot of tension. a.          Give one example of the behaviour of the subjects that indicated extreme tension. (2) Any one from: Fidgeting‚ agitation‚ asking if learner was being harmed‚ trying to stop‚ pausing. b.          Milgram suggested that the tension was caused by the conflicts produced by the study. Outline one of these conflicts. (2) One

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    Is it fair to deceive humans in an unethical psychological experiment in order to receive new information? This is a question that I believe needs to be asked when one thinks of the Milgram experiment‚ a psychological study set up in the U.S in 1965. American psychologist Stanley Milgram held an experiment in order to see how severely ordinary human beings could knowingly cause harm to another human. This idea came about when he studied the holocaust in Germany in WWII‚ and then in the Nuremberg

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    Stanley Milgram carried out one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. He 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

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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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    Stanley Milgram’s Aims & Context 10.09.2014 Obedience is a direct social influence where a person complies with orders without questioning a person with perceived authority and does a task voluntarily. In the presence of a person of authority‚ the said person has an option of either complying with orders they are given or to disobey‚ and as consequences may be unknown if they do not follow what they are asked to do‚ fear of punishment may influence the person to then respond by submitting

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    Outline and Evaluate Milgrams Study of Obedience (12 marks) . Milgram after advertising for volunteer participants were paid on arrival at the laboratory for their time. Participants‚ believing they were taking part in a memory experiment‚ were introduced in pairs to the experimenter where they ‘decided’ who was to be either a ‘teacher’ or a ‘learner’. In reality one of the ‘pairs’ of participants was a confederate and the chances were rigged so that the real participant was always the ‘teacher’

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    The milgram experiment. The three people involved were: the one running the experiment‚ the subject of the experiment a volunteer‚ and a person pretending to be a volunteer. These three persons fill three distinct roles: the Experimenter an authoritative role‚ the Teacher a role intended to obey the orders of the Experimenter‚ and the Learner the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher. The subject and the actor both drew slips of paper to determine their roles‚ but unknown to the subject‚ both slips

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    Was the Milgram Experiment Ethical or Valid? In 1961‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment on a group’s obedience to authority. This experiment has encountered intense scrutiny ever since its findings were first published in 1963; many people question the ethics and validity of the experiment. Multitudes of researchers have taken it upon themselves to determine the answers to the questions (McLeod). Based on new guidelines for ethics‚ Stanley Milgram’s experiment

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    wept and begged to stop believing they had killed the learner. Most of the participants thought that the experiment was real. Milgram came to the conclusion that people obey authority because of the situation they are in and not because they are evil. The study showed the power of authority over our behaviour. High levels of obedience were observed for various reasons such as the experiment was held at Yale university

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    learning about the Stanley Milgram experiment‚ I found myself questioning why and how the majority of the subjects that participated in the experiment were willing to inflict apparent pain and injury on an innocent person‚ and found myself curious as to how I would react should I but put in the same situation. I believe that the most significant reason for this disturbing absence of critical thinking and moral responsibility is because the subjects involved in the experiment were blinded by authority

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