Randolph RC 250 Marcia Clay 11/3/09 A Summary of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Study Stanley Milgram‚ a professor of social psychology‚ conducted a research study beginning in July of 1961. This research measured the willingness of participants to either obey or disobey an authority figuring giving them on a conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram set up this experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another
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tell you to do something and you did it without even considering otherwise? From an early age‚ we are conditioned to respond immediately when an authority figure gives us an order. For this reason‚ I chose an article about a reproduction of the Milgram study that took place in 1963 and established that people will go to extreme lengths to obey authority. The Holocaust was the motivation behind Milgram’s study and we are all knowledgeable of the atrocities ordered by Hitler (Simplepsychology‚ n
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Some of the more famous cases include‚ The Milgram Obedience and Authority experiment‚ The Stanford Prison experiment‚ and of course the Abu Ghraib scandal involving our own U.S. soldiers. While two of these instances were not intended to cause physical harm‚ they were all branded unethical due to the extent of not only the physical abuses that took place‚ but the painful psychological impact it left on those involved. One experiment‚ called The Milgram experiment‚ also raised ethical concern. The
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go against and contest their own values and morals and conform to the directives given by an authority figure‚ even to the degree of causing harm and/or death to an individual? Stanley Milgram devoted the majority of his latter research on investigating this question (Burger‚ 2009‚ Cherry‚ 2013‚ McLeod‚ 2007; Milgram‚ 1974). The purpose of this paper is to briefly summarize Milgram’s seminal research on obedience to authority and describe Milgram’s methodology‚ research and interpretations of his findings
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Stanley Milgram Journal Assignment Draft A psychologist named Stanley Milgram created an invention called the shock generator which included thirty different switches that had ranging voltages. The main question of the experiment is “how long will someone continue to give shocks to another person if they are told to do so‚ even if they thought they could be seriously hurt?” (Milgram Experiment‚ 2008). Of course to conduct any experiment‚ you need participants. Stanley Milgram had forty subjects
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Describe and evaluate Milgram’s study into obedience Milgram (1963)’s aim was to see the levels of obedience to authority‚ he recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers on newspaper to take part of a study of memory at Yale University. Each individual was paid $4.50 and was told that they would receive this money even if they quit during the study. The participants were always the teachers and confederates were the learners. The participants were told that if the learner got
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Introduction Milgram Experiment Method 40 men were recruited for a lab experiment investigating “learning”. In exchange for their participation‚ each person was paid $4.50. After the WWII‚ Stanley Milgram a psychologist of Yale University posed a question‚ “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices? These men were introduced to another participant who were actually actors. These men were given role
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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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often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation." This is from ’perils of obedience’ by Stanley milgram. I enjoyed this
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In the Milgram Experiment‚ a number of people where chosen to take memory test. If the subject did not correctly remember the words that were given‚ they would receive an electric shock. Also the person who was giving the electric shock was being evaluated as well‚ as to see their reactions when it came to delivering the punishment of being wrong. They were told that the shocks would not be as painful and that the person taking the exam would be fine. Every time the learner would make a mistake‚
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