In this assignment I will be comparing and contrasting the terms conformity and obedience. I will also be answering the following questions: 1) Does research into conformity and obedience explain the horrors of war atrocities‚ such as The Holocaust‚ the Mi Lai Massacre in Vietnam or the abuse suffered by Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison? 2) Does research into independent behavior suggest these atrocities could be averted in future conflicts? Conformity is a form of social influence in which
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Tuan Nguyen Professor Jill Moreno Ikari ENG 101 11 October 2013 Obedience and Civil Disobedience INTRODUCTION 20XX‚ the world has gone through dramatic changes. World War III largely devastated the whole world. The word “sovereign nation” doesn’t exist since most nations were merge into a large‚ totalitarian world government. It is one the darkest age since the dawn of human history. Technological capabilities has reached such an advanced state that human hardly need to serve themselves‚ everything
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Obedience is omnipresent; it is difficult to differentiate between obedience and conformity‚ therefore it is a complicated subject of social psychology. However‚ Stanley Milgram was devoted to understand the phenomena of obedience‚ and created a dramatic masterpiece. Interested in many different aspects of life‚ Stanley Milgram was an influential key figure in psychology. However his work on the field of obedience is respected and still exiting for both psychologists and lay people. The aim of this
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In "The Perils of Obedience‚" Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obeying immoral commands given by authority and refusing authority. The experiment was to see how much pain a normal person would inflict on another person because he/she were being ordered to do so by a scientist. The participants of this experiment included two willing individuals: a teacher and a learner. The teacher was the real subject and the learner was an actor. In almost all case the teacher would
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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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Outline & Evaluate one or more Explanations of Why People Obey. There are many reasons as to why people obey which have been justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in
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My heart’s bothering me. Let me out‚ I tell you. (Hysterically) You have no right to hold me here. Let me out!” (Milgram‚ 1965) You would hope that any decent human being would sympathise and realise that enough is enough. But Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment found that an astonishing 26 out of 40 (Milgram‚ 1963) of your average‚ everyday American men would shock an innocent human being to the point of death even after hearing these pleads. In 1963‚ psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to investigate
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It did not examine the psyche of the main leader of a genocide (the authoritative figure)‚ but instead analyzed the followers thereof (the loyal submissives who went against their conscience to follow the leader’s orders) (McLeod‚ 2007). This obedience to authority is
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Blind Obedience in The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a fictionalized autobiographical story that illustrates the emotional deterioration of the female narrator who is also a wife and mother. The woman‚ who seemingly is suffering from post-partum depression‚ searches for some sort of peace in her male dominated world. She is given a “rest cure” from her husband/doctor‚ John‚ which requires strict bed rest and a prescribed forbidding from any mental stimulation
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good behavior instead of scolding bad behaviour‚ it leads to a more obedient dog. A great way to making training sessions easier and to be a more complete trainer is to understand how a dog thinks‚ and understand their behavior. In the article “Obedience Training For Dogs” it is expressed that scolding a dog while training for not doing what is wanted can have negative effects on the dog; this can make the dog associate training with being harmed and lead the dog to be reluctant to training (para
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