Synthesis Essay
Society plays a significant role in our lives today, it raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad. Stanley Milgram is well known for his experiments on obedience, they are considered to be the "most important social-psychological experiments of all time" (Milgram Two). Milgram was criticized by many and was often cited as a psychologist who deceived many people through his experiments. His experiment Obedience to Authority consisted of a phony shocking device, a learner, a teacher, and the experimenter, also known as the authoritative figure. His goal was to see how long a teacher would continue sending lethal shocks to a student just because a figure of authority asked him/her to do so. After reading the articles: "Ethics, Deception, and 'Those Milgram Experiments '," "Adventures in Good and Evil states," "Stanley Milgram 's Obedience Experiments: A Report Card 50 Years Later," and "Taking A Closer Look At Milgram 's Shocking Obedience Study" I was able to conclude that I stand for Milgram 's experiments because they did not bring any danger to the subjects and it was running off of one 's will to do something.
Many people criticized his experiments and labeled him as …show more content…
This helps support the fact that none of the subjects were forced to continue the tests; they were able to dismiss themselves whenever they were ready because they decided how long the test would actually last. Begley 's statement contradicts C.D Herrera 's evidence. Herrera claimed that there was mental harm done to the subjects because they actually thought they were shocking the patients, but they were in control of deciding whether to "shock or walk, obey or defy" (Milgram Five, Milgram One). The patients also had the opportunity to reject the offer when the experimenters were recruiting the
Society plays a significant role in our lives today, it raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad. Stanley Milgram is well known for his experiments on obedience, they are considered to be the "most important social-psychological experiments of all time" (Milgram Two). Milgram was criticized by many and was often cited as a psychologist who deceived many people through his experiments. His experiment Obedience to Authority consisted of a phony shocking device, a learner, a teacher, and the experimenter, also known as the authoritative figure. His goal was to see how long a teacher would continue sending lethal shocks to a student just because a figure of authority asked him/her to do so. After reading the articles: "Ethics, Deception, and 'Those Milgram Experiments '," "Adventures in Good and Evil states," "Stanley Milgram 's Obedience Experiments: A Report Card 50 Years Later," and "Taking A Closer Look At Milgram 's Shocking Obedience Study" I was able to conclude that I stand for Milgram 's experiments because they did not bring any danger to the subjects and it was running off of one 's will to do something.
Many people criticized his experiments and labeled him as …show more content…
This helps support the fact that none of the subjects were forced to continue the tests; they were able to dismiss themselves whenever they were ready because they decided how long the test would actually last. Begley 's statement contradicts C.D Herrera 's evidence. Herrera claimed that there was mental harm done to the subjects because they actually thought they were shocking the patients, but they were in control of deciding whether to "shock or walk, obey or defy" (Milgram Five, Milgram One). The patients also had the opportunity to reject the offer when the experimenters were recruiting the