Ang Cee Wei PSY108 Introduction to Psychology 2 Individual Assignment 01 July 2012 Presentation Part 2: Short-essay Questions The following are some of the ethical guidelines on human research specified by the American Psychological Association (APA) and British Psychological Society (BSP): Informed consent must be obtained from the participants (APA Standard 3.10 & 8.02 / BPS Ethical Principle 1.3) Intentional deception must be avoided (APA Standard 8.07 / BPS Ethical
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College Ethical Principles of Psychologists & Code of Conduct1 What is it about each of these studies that makes them unethical? The Milgram experiment In the Milgram experiment the people who played the role known as the teachers‚ were intentionally tricked. Based on the Code of Conduct 2 where pretext may be ethically admissible. It was the way that Milgram did so that was not ethical by today’s standards. For human participants the codes cover topics such as deception‚ consent‚ withdrawal
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Stanley Milgram‚ born a Jew‚ wonders how he was fortunate enough to be born and raised in the United States‚ however‚ he was still impacted by the Holocaust. He felt very passionate about the Holocaust and feels guilty that he hadn’t died in the concentration camps with his fellow Jews in Europe (Miller‚ 2015). Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ sought out the reasoning behind why Nazi soldiers blindly obeyed authority‚ especially after the Nuremberg War Criminal trials in World War II (McLeod
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Outline and evaluate research into obedience (Milgram) Milgram carried out a series of studies to try to shed some light on the aspect of human behaviour. He studied a thousand participants who were representative of the general population. He discovered that under certain situational influences most of us would conform to what is needed to be done. His study of obedience was done in a lab in Yale University and the experimenter wore a long grey coat which reinforced his authority and status. Then
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Behavioral obedience experiment by Milgram At Yale University an experiment had conducted on behavioral and obedience of the people by Milgram (1963). A total of 40 male volunteers of different age groups between 20 and 50 from New Haven and surrounding communities were selected to participated in the experiment by Milgram (1963). At the starting of the experiment Milgram (1963) wants to differentiate the participants into teachers and learners. So‚ he then asked the participants to draw the slips
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There are many studies about obedience to authority‚ each studies experimenting in different situation. The most well known experiment of obedience is the infamous Milgram experiment‚ because it brings a lot of controversies and some ethics issues. It was the first study of obedience after the World War II‚ conducted by Stanley Milgram‚ when he was a psychologist at Yale University on the year of 1961. And he conducted various study about obedience ever since.Milgram urge to study obedience on human
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The article‚ Behavioral Study of Obedience written by Dr. Stanley Milgram of Yale University was published in 1963 by the American Psychological Association (Milgram‚ 1963). In this article we explore one of the most widely studied articles of obedience in psychology. Dr. Milgram conducted an experiment that focused on the connection between the conscience and obedience to authority or commands. The first of many experiments took place in July 1961 after the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann
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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 it is something the person does not believe is right. Also‚ studies conducted by Zimbardo (1973) on deindividuation have shown that a normally healthy‚ intelligent person can lose their
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individual and how it will affect them. Many times after horrible acts of genocide those accused of those acts claim that they were just following the orders of their superiors. In 1961 Stanley Milgram devised an experiment to answer this‚ the conflict of obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram wanted to see how far an individual would go in following orders to harm another human being. As Joel Stein‚ an American journalist‚ said; “Once society makes a new moral decision we’ve got to
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policeman or doctor) and the lab / educational environment also presents a place‚ where most people wouldn’t be in real life situation. Many people might feel more inclined to be obedient in this environment from their own school days. Moreover‚ Milgram only used a small number of people from one location‚ again‚ this questions the results‚ by having such a small sample‚ its hard to suggest that everyone around the world would perform the same. This however‚ can be overcome by undertaking ensuring
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