Milgram experiment tells us about human and obedience. Humans are socially adapted to the society they live in and obedience is when a group humans follows the rule no matter wrong or right. Humans are usually obedient in most situations. That is due to teachings they receive. For example‚ when Hitler was killing groups of people‚ it was wrong; but the group of authority just listen to him and followed the rules. This situation was wrong and harmful but it was something that they just followed because
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Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiment One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II‚ Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just
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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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How evil are we? Imagine being able to tell if someone was evil or good. In “The Milgram Experiment” they prove they can prove whether people are evil or good. In the test they have volunteer teachers come and help the learner learn. If the learner gets the question wrong the teacher is told to give them a painful shock. If the teacher continues‚ even after the learner pleads for them to stop‚ their evil. 77% of the volunteers completed the test. In one of the trials the participant didn’t speak
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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 (1963) Behavioural Study of Obedience Thinking like a Psychologist - Evaluating the Core Study What are the strengths and weaknesses of the method used? The method used by Milgram was the laboratory experiment. The main advantage that Milgram had with this method was the amount of control he had over the situation. He controlled what the participants saw‚ heard and experienced and was able to manipulate their behaviour through what they were exposed to. This method also allowed accurate
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