Stanely Milgram was a social phycologist who conducted an experiment in 1963 about nonviolent people being capable of hurting others due to obeying the authority under pressure despite their feeling of remorse. The way the experiment received progression was by having people play the role of a teacher and a learner. The teacher obeys the authority and the learner had to memorize a certain amount of words. If the learner failed to the duty, he would received a punishment of a dose of high voltage shock. Although the purpose of the experiment was to test how the learner was capable of learning, it to was to test the capability of the teacher to continue the experiment whether or not they felt guilt.…
In the first chapter of Alan Moore’s graphic novel, Watchmen, a masked vigilante named Rorschach utilizes violence and pain as a method of achieving results. His method confirms and extends a few of the theories mentioned in Harvard professor Elaine Scarry’s published study, The Body in Pain. Rorschach’s violence on pages twenty-three and twenty-four of Watchmen stems from his mission to find out who brutally murdered Edward Blake, a fellow vigilante also known as “The Comedian”. Rorschach enters a dimly lit, sketchy bar named “Happy Harry’s” and approaches the bartender, Harry, looking for answers to his question. A customer at the bar named Steve rudely antagonizes Rorschach, so he uses Steve to get the answers he needs from the rest of the bar’s customers.…
“The Perils of Obedience” written by Stanley Milgram and “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience” written by Diana Baumrind are both intriguing articles about Stanley Milgram’s experiments on obedience. Diana Baumrind believes that Stanley Milgram failed at his experiences on obedience rather than succeeded. Stanley Milgram believed that he succeeded on his experiments if an authority figure tells the test subject to do something then the test subject will. “Stanley Milgram designed an experiment that forced participants either to violate their conscience by obeying the immoral demands of an authority figure or to refuse those demands” (Milgram 77). While both authors address experiments on obedience, Stanley Milgram approaches…
In a few short years, the Nazis systematically killed 11 or more million people, essentially the entire population of Pennsylvania. The entire state of Pennsylvania, wiped off the face of the earth. It is incomprehensible that people can be driven to kill a whole race of humans, but that was what happened. The SS and Gestapo officers blindly followed everything the high-ranking officials told them to do, for they were lead to believe that it was good for Germany. Nearly a whole Continent obeyed by Hitler’s every word and, if he wanted the Jews to die, they would be killed.…
Similar to The Rorschach Test – a famed psychological inkblot test that means different things to different people – Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts can be interpreted in a number of unique ways. It tells a purposely ambiguous, experimental, and daring story that forces readers to question their preconceived notions between knowledge, love, identity, and insanity. The Raw Shark Texts is a flawless example of how emotional trauma triggers psychosis, as well as how losing a loved one disturbs a broken heart. In The Raw Shark Texts, the reader encounters "Eric Sanderson One" and "Eric Sanderson Two" whose ideas live on post-metaphorical death, and eventual literal death.…
Life Changing Moment: Analysis Essay of “Cathedral” “Cathedral” is an eye opening tale about a man and a blind man named Robert becoming aware that there is more than what meets the eye. Throughout the story we realize the man who is the narrator and has the ability to see is more blind than the man who is medically diagnosed as “blind” an irony to say that a man who has no vision can see more than a man who has perfect 20/20. We can perceive this by lack of insight he lacks towards his wife, and the way he is unable to describe detail on a cathedral to Robert. Thanks to his lack of insight, he went through something powerful when he decided to draw out the cathedral with Robert. We now understand that the them is “don’t judge a book by its cover” meaning don’t be quick to assume of how a person might be just by looking at them without really looking at them in a deeper level and also how one moment in your life can deeply impact you and even change who you are.…
Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist, shares his results from an experiment he conducted in regards to obedience of authority in 1963 in, “The Perils of Obedience.” His experiment illustrated that when put under particular circumstances, ordinary citizens have the capability to perform terrible and unexpected actions (Milgram 85). Milgram rationalizes these proceedings through the conclusion that the average individual will decide to please the experimenter rather than resist his authority to protect the wellbeing of the learner (Milgram 86). Diana Baumrind, a psychologist who worked at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, writes in response to Milgram’s experiment “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments…
Watchmen is one of the greatest graphic novel of all time for the simple reason it makes you question morality on a scale rarely seen in fiction indeed. When considering the characters in the book it’s hard to say that their Good or evil they are simply people who are convinced that they are right. Rorschach is a good ex he follows the law with conviction, but doesn’t see the problems with the law, he is violent very violent his unique way of doing vigilante justice is a reflection of law’s order he works outside the law to enforce the law weird. On the other side of the spectrum, the character Ozymandias unlike his opposite Rorschach he looks at the big picture and tackles larger issues like world peace, alternative fuels, crime. He sees the…
In comparison to Watson and Pavlov, Skinner’s idea of behaviorism is different; hence, the term “radical.” Skinner’s idea of radical behaviorism addresses the voluntary behavior. When addressing voluntary behavior, there is a thorough analysis of behavior. The big question was “how do ‘organisms’ engage in voluntary responses?” Voluntary responses were anything from nonverbal to verbal communication.…
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Three examples of unalienable rights, given to us by our forefather in the Declaration Of Independence. However, is there a universal definition of happiness that we must all follow, or is it something that we must decipher for ourselves? Humans have a set notion that if things don’t pan out the way that they envision it, that they are stuck in this hole of unhappiness. Dan Gilbert and Carl Rogers try to put into perspective exactly what happiness is, and can be.…
Guadalupe Loza Professor Comstock English -80 28 ctober, 2014 Obedience: Behind of an Unethical True The action of believing on what is right according to reality and its own self; make obedience part of each individual responsibility regardless other people behavior. Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist that conducted in the 1960s one of the most famous studies referring on how people obey or disobey to certain authoritarian instructions. The experiment basically consisted on put in one of the participants to an unclear situation in which they would be required to select either to obey or disobey the instructions given by an authoritative person. The role of the participants were to indicated a set of words to the learner(…
Ordinary People is a 1980 film about Conrad and his family. Their family lost the eldest son in a boating accident and their relationship with each other becomes strained after Conrad attempts suicide. The relationship between Conrad and his mother is distant and disconnected. The relationship between Conrad and his father is more open in comparison. After Conrad returns home from the hospital he starts therapy with Dr. Berger.…
The Wars Robert Ross is in a predicament that showcased the epitome of juxtaposition in this particular novel. Robert a being of gentle and compassionate spirit is thrust into a chaos ridden world, that most would not be able to make sense of let alone survive as long as he did. The protagonist is forced to participate in acts that are so wildly in opposition to his gentle and caring nature. Roberts’s deep reverence for all living things is at the core of who he is as a person. Under these circumstances, it is reasonable to infer any man would become unraveled and Robert was no exception.…
We learn that Robert is a prestiged mathematician who was plagued with a rare mental illness. David Auburn hints at the idea that Catherine, Roberts’s daughter, was also gifted with the same mathematical skills as her father. In act 1, Robert and Catherine get into an argument over what are good days or bad days. Catherine seems to believe that the good days are those days when you just stay in bed all day and don’t leave, but Robert believes that those are days lost. Robert shows his concern for Catherine when he states “ You sleep till noon, you eat junk food, you don’t work, the dishes pile up in the sink… Some days you don’t get up, you don’t get out of bed”(Auburn 9).…
Rogers’ Person-Centered Theory When developing his theory, Carl Roger’s biggest idea is that “people have a fundamental tendency to develop in healthy directions” (Cloninger, 2013, p. 269). Rogers (1961) theorized an actualizing tendency which is evident in all humans – “the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self” (p. 351). He described that these tendencies not only include biological needs, but “higher” human motivations as well – like complexity and social responsibility (Cloninger, 2013). Rogers summarizes that a self-actualizing person is in touch with their organismic valuing process, which is the “inner sense within a person, which guides him or her in the directions of growth and health” (Cloninger,…