How to Teach Children the Art of Obedience and Disobedience
Since some social psychology professors proved a theory by several experiments, the theory has been accepted by the many social psychologists that human behavior can be markedly influenced and change by any situation, even though sometimes the changes of behaviors were not ethically right. Stanley Milgram, a professor of psychology at Yale University conducted a series of social psychology experiments to verify how ordinary German people could go along with and obey the cruel authority who perpetrated genocide at the World War II (McLeod 584-588). This experiment was composed of an experimenter and a teacher in the same room and a learner in the other separate room in Yale Interaction Laboratory. The teachers were the …show more content…
The learner was a confederate who was strapped to a chair with electrodes, learned and answered a list of word pairs given him to learn, and received the electric shock, not really if he answered wrong on purpose. Most of the subjects kept this experiment, although the order of authority was atrocious. The results surprisingly corresponded to Milgram’s theory that ordinary people who would not commit a brutal act can change their behavior cruelly to obey the powerful authority. Milgram experimented with 18 different variations that were changes of location condition, touch proximity condition, social support condition, two teacher condition, uniform condition, and absent experimenter condition. The results from those variation studies showed the conditions that can increase or reduce subjects’ cruel choices as they obeyed or disobeyed the authority (McLeod 584-588). If so, who are capable to choose rightly their behaviors that are sometimes obeyed or sometimes disobeyed to authority, although people can be highly influenced by situations? Additionally, how can the children learn the art of obedience and disobedience
Since some social psychology professors proved a theory by several experiments, the theory has been accepted by the many social psychologists that human behavior can be markedly influenced and change by any situation, even though sometimes the changes of behaviors were not ethically right. Stanley Milgram, a professor of psychology at Yale University conducted a series of social psychology experiments to verify how ordinary German people could go along with and obey the cruel authority who perpetrated genocide at the World War II (McLeod 584-588). This experiment was composed of an experimenter and a teacher in the same room and a learner in the other separate room in Yale Interaction Laboratory. The teachers were the …show more content…
The learner was a confederate who was strapped to a chair with electrodes, learned and answered a list of word pairs given him to learn, and received the electric shock, not really if he answered wrong on purpose. Most of the subjects kept this experiment, although the order of authority was atrocious. The results surprisingly corresponded to Milgram’s theory that ordinary people who would not commit a brutal act can change their behavior cruelly to obey the powerful authority. Milgram experimented with 18 different variations that were changes of location condition, touch proximity condition, social support condition, two teacher condition, uniform condition, and absent experimenter condition. The results from those variation studies showed the conditions that can increase or reduce subjects’ cruel choices as they obeyed or disobeyed the authority (McLeod 584-588). If so, who are capable to choose rightly their behaviors that are sometimes obeyed or sometimes disobeyed to authority, although people can be highly influenced by situations? Additionally, how can the children learn the art of obedience and disobedience