The Milgram Experiment
In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram (1993-1984) began an experiment that would test to see how obedient people would be no matter the circumstances. One experiment Milgram performed consisted of volunteers shocking someone they did not know if he or she did not answer a question correctly. As the questions are answered incorrectly, the voltage would rise. Unknown to the volunteer, the subject that is being shocked is an actor that is not being electrocuted, and the volunteer was the subject of the experiment. As the experiment continued, the volunteers began to become stressed (Taylor, Peplau, & Sears, 2005, p. 228).
Ethics
Throughout history, this experiment has been a major case that remained as a violator of the code …show more content…
In today’s time, the ethics board has made the code of ethics in order that no one would be harmed while in the experiment. This meant both physically and emotionally. The Milgram experiment, as explained earlier in the report, caused stress to arise from the participates with would cause emotional distress. The next code that the board added is that every volunteer would have to sign either a waiver or a consent form that would allow the experimenter to perform the experiment on the volunteer. According to McArthur (2009), back in the 1960s, this written consent form was not needed as they are today (p. …show more content…
SUBJECT: I understand that statement, but I don’t understand why the experiment is placed above the person’s life.
EXPERIMENTER: There is no permanent tissue damage.
SUBJECT: Well, that’s your opinion. If he doesn’t want to continue, I’m taking orders from him.
EXPERIMENTER: You have no other choice, sir, you must go on.
SUBJECT: If this were Russia maybe, but not in America.
(Gibson, 2013, p. 294)
These results would continue with other subjects by questioning the experimenter as to why they would have to carry on. Some subjects would react more verbally towards the experimenter and storm out.
Conclusion
The Milgram experiment, in today’s time, is used to show what experiments influenced the code of ethics that is now used. Incorporated with schools, students that learn psychology and social psychology are educated about this experiment to study about the code of ethics. When the students learn about the code of ethics, this experiment falls on two of the codes that are violated: the participant should be informed on why the experiment is being conducted and the experiment should not harm the
In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram (1993-1984) began an experiment that would test to see how obedient people would be no matter the circumstances. One experiment Milgram performed consisted of volunteers shocking someone they did not know if he or she did not answer a question correctly. As the questions are answered incorrectly, the voltage would rise. Unknown to the volunteer, the subject that is being shocked is an actor that is not being electrocuted, and the volunteer was the subject of the experiment. As the experiment continued, the volunteers began to become stressed (Taylor, Peplau, & Sears, 2005, p. 228).
Ethics
Throughout history, this experiment has been a major case that remained as a violator of the code …show more content…
In today’s time, the ethics board has made the code of ethics in order that no one would be harmed while in the experiment. This meant both physically and emotionally. The Milgram experiment, as explained earlier in the report, caused stress to arise from the participates with would cause emotional distress. The next code that the board added is that every volunteer would have to sign either a waiver or a consent form that would allow the experimenter to perform the experiment on the volunteer. According to McArthur (2009), back in the 1960s, this written consent form was not needed as they are today (p. …show more content…
SUBJECT: I understand that statement, but I don’t understand why the experiment is placed above the person’s life.
EXPERIMENTER: There is no permanent tissue damage.
SUBJECT: Well, that’s your opinion. If he doesn’t want to continue, I’m taking orders from him.
EXPERIMENTER: You have no other choice, sir, you must go on.
SUBJECT: If this were Russia maybe, but not in America.
(Gibson, 2013, p. 294)
These results would continue with other subjects by questioning the experimenter as to why they would have to carry on. Some subjects would react more verbally towards the experimenter and storm out.
Conclusion
The Milgram experiment, in today’s time, is used to show what experiments influenced the code of ethics that is now used. Incorporated with schools, students that learn psychology and social psychology are educated about this experiment to study about the code of ethics. When the students learn about the code of ethics, this experiment falls on two of the codes that are violated: the participant should be informed on why the experiment is being conducted and the experiment should not harm the