on Obedience Explain why and how this research can be used to help prepare student nurses for working on hospital wards Contribute to the understanding of some of the challenges nurses may face in their working practices Background Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist from Yale University‚ conducted a series of experiments on obedience to explain some of the concentration camp horrors perpetrated during World War II. He tested the subjects’ willingness to cause pain to another person if instructed
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DD307 - TMA 01 Outline and assess the use of experiments in social psychology drawing on the cognitive social perspective and one of the other three perspectives in the module (discursive psychological‚ phenomenological or social psychoanalytic). This essay will provide a description of the experimental method for both the cognitive social perspective and social psychoanalytic perspective. A compare and contrast will be given for the two perspectives in a critical evaluation as an approach
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transportation which could result in injuries. A Previous study shows that common courtesy on public transit seems unlikely which is shown in the following experiment; unless those in need request for it. An experiment done in 1975 by Dr. Stanley Milgram concluded that 68% of people willingly gave up their seat when asked. The other 22% either refused or automatically assumed something was wrong with the person and asked if they were "okay". This shows that many people are unwilling to give up their
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Research is vital as the foundation of evidence-based practice‚ which is imperative within social work to help the promotion of well-being‚ maintain dignity and overcome difficulties. Ethical standards form a fundamental part of social work practice and‚ likewise in research‚ it must reflect the same ethical principles which puts participants’ best interests as its core. These promote values which are essential when working with marginalised groups within society‚ including establishing trust‚ accountability
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Philip Zimbardo and 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
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than him ( informative conformity) or because wanted to fit in with other ‘participants’ (normative conformity) Milgrams Shock Experiment Stanley Milgram‚ questioned results of Holocaust Participant took role of ‘teacher’ believing he/she administered various levels of shock to ‘student’. Student was confederate‚ pretending to be shocked Screams of pain could be heard 65% of Milgrams study showed participants administered maximum level shock. Factors increasing conformity
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obeying orders. Taking this into consideration‚ this experiment suggests and explains why the soldiers obeyed the orders they were given; the behaviour of the perpetrators were the outcome of situation factors rather than dispositional factors. Milgram argued that the following factors could help explain the situation at My Lai. Military training sets apart soldiers from all others to prevent opposition with authorities outside the military. The purpose of basic training is to break down the concepts
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A war veteran speaks with his closest friend about their days in the military‚ reliving their long nights on the beach‚ shooting at the enemies‚ enjoying themselves while always facing victory‚ never touching upon the trauma that they endured. They never talk about the faces of young men that they were ordered to execute‚ nor do they talk about the image in their heads of a little girl‚ laying in the street dead‚ her mother next in line for a the similar fate. Both men ask themselves how they came
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In this article‚ Milgram presents his theory of obedience. He wanted to understand a new aspect of human nature that wasn’t explored before. He provided examples from his experiment to support his findings. His experiment was set up to determine how people would react to an authority? Milgram is surely an intelligent writer‚ he is aware of his audience. This article was written for every common man who believes that he is good and cannot do anything bad to anyone else. The paragraphs and examples
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