On 10/25/2015 at approximately 1609 hours at the address listed above. I was assigned as the Tower 34 floor officer. As I was conducting a security walk in Tower 34 A-Pod‚ cell 8 Inmate Quintero‚ Cesar T221902 was standing at the back wall facing the wall with his cellmate Inmate Gonzalez‚ Yadhir T217188. I asked Inmate Quintero and Inmate Gonzalez what they were doing; Inmate Quintero stated “Nothing.” Inmate Quintero and Inmate Gonzalez then walked out of the cell. At that time I searched cell
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The premise of the film is a revered and distinguished Army general has pled guilty to disobeying orders‚ from the President. He is sent to a military prison to serve his sentence. General Irwin‚ meets the warden of the prison‚ Colonel Winter‚ who he ultimately discovers is cruel and murderous. Even though the inmates of the prison are criminals‚ they are also military personnel and still possess a self-respect and discipline. Which is against the warden’s wishes‚ the General helps institute a rank
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Conformism is a topic that appears to be fascinating in the research world due its ability to influence the decision making process. The author mentions that conformism was not well known or studied until the 1950’s when Solomon Asch conducted a study. The author refers to conformism as an individual’s skewed decision making due to the societal norms of the particular group. Societal norms are the implied beliefs and rules of a group. The author offers the views of society and psychologists when
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Devin Crockrel Shannon Smith Eng 112 18 June 2013 Obedience to Authority: “The Stanford Prison Experiment” “The Stanford Prison Experiment” was a well-known and controversial study. It took place in 1973 and delved into the human psyche behind roles of authority‚ and obedience. The setting was a controlled prison environment at Stanford University. The experiment was meant to study the process in which “guards” and “prisoners” learn to become obedient‚ and an authoritarian. The subjects
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both showing how humans obey authority. Milgram studied obedient on authority. Zimbardo studied why guards and prisoner play that role in prison. The Milgram and Zimbardo experiments showed how humans are so obedient that we are capable of hurting innocent people if ordered to do so. The study of obedience‚ conducted by Milgram‚ was to test how the subject would obey when ordered by the experimenter to adminater a shock to another human. Two experiments were conducted. The first used Yale undergraduates
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Conformity and Obedience Assignment In this assignment I intend to evaluate Stanley Milgrams studies of obedience and in particular the ethical issues broken. I hope to determine whether the knowledge gained justifies his experiments. After the destruction and atrocities committed in World War II many historians argued that there must be some sort of character defect that made the German people more obedient. Mailgram’s study was an attempt to test ‘the Germans are different’ hypothesis. The
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Obedience Some of the darkest times in history have resulted from passive obedience‚ not from large acts of violence. Howard Zinn‚ a social activist‚ once stated “Historically‚ the most terrible things – war‚ genocide‚ and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience‚ but from obedience.” In many instances‚ leaders or dictators have taken over a specific group of people and caused them to obey their commands by frightening them with authority. Obedience appears as the main cause of war‚ genocide
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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 at obedience and Authority
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to the concentration camps themselves where medical experiments‚ starvation‚ forced labor‚ gassings‚ beatings‚ and mass shootings occurred‚ seemingly ordinary people were capable of terrible deeds. Whether they acted under recklessness‚ fear‚ hate‚ ignorance‚ or were simply following orders’ is what one must ask about every participant of the Holocaust‚ and through experiments like Milgram’s‚ we can understand the psychology of their obedience well enough to ensure that such atrocities never happen
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distinctions between right and wrong. Therefore‚ in most situations human beings behave in accordance with their morality. Studies on notions such as obedience to authority and deindividuation have shown that in some cases‚ an individual can be made to act in direct opposition to their morals and ethics. Studies conducted by Milgram (1963) on obedience have shown that if an individual is ordered to do something by someone who is perceived to be in power‚ it is possible that they will do it‚ even if
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