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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In the 1960s‚ Milgram‚ then a professor at Yale‚ recruited ordinary people through a newspaper ad offering them money to help in a project purporting to improve human memory. In Milgrams experiment two people come into the laboratory where they are told they will be taking part in a study of memory and learning. Milgram was interested in how people obey under authoritative circumstances‚ using "fake" settings to test obedience. Under any given circumstance people tend to obey authority differently
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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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Evaluate Milgrams research into obedience. Stanley Milgram (1963) explains why 65% of the people did something they felt was morally wrong‚ that is they went into an agentic state and exhibited some aspects of denial in order to avoid moral strain. However‚ Milgram does not explain why 65% did not obey. In other words‚ it does not explain individual differences as the volunteers in Milgrams experiment seemed to resist the pressure and Milgram does not explain that. To continue‚ the experiment
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Brad Birnbaum October 30‚ 2012 The Milgram Experiment Sociology 115 The Milgram experiment‚ a study based on a person’s obedience to an authority‚ was a series of social psychology experiments. These experiments measured the willingness of people to obey a person with authority. During the study‚ head figures instructed participants to perform acts that would normally conflict with their personal morality. Milgram’s experiments started shortly after the trial of German Nazi
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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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1. What is the “Lucifer effect” and how was it evident in the Milgram Study? The Lucifer effect refers to a transformation of human character that causes good people to commit evil actions. The effect was seen in the experiment where the prisoners and the guards started to become hostile towards one another even though they weren’t like so before the experiment. 2. What are “shield laws” and what role did they played in the Weinstein Decision? Shield laws are laws that protect researchers from being
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In a series of experiments regarding obeying authority‚ Stanley Milgram found that “the physical presence of an authority is an important force contributing to the subject’s obedience or defiance”. Milgram concluded from his study that the proximity of an authoritative figure plays a huge role in determining whether or not the subject carried out the experiment. Specifically in the
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The Controversy of Obedience A classic experiment on the natural obedience of individuals was designed and tested by a Yale psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram. The test forced participants to either go against their morals or violate authority. For the experiment‚ two people would come into the lab after being told they were testing memory loss‚ though only one of them was actually being tested. The unaware individual‚ called the “teacher” would sit in a separate room‚ administering memory related
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