Obedience Psychology

Imagine that you have been asked to be a part of an experiment, you are taken to a room and are told that someone is in the room neighboring you. You are then asked to ask the individual in the adjacent room a series of questions. You are instructed to shock the individual if they get a question wrong. You are then administered a shock yourself to grasp the amount of pain that you can place on the individual however, the voltage of the shocks will increase as the individual continues to get questions wrong. If the individual is wrong they must be shocked, if they are silent they must be shocked and if you hesitate you will be pressured to commence with the shocking the individual. This experiment was created to test your obedience in uncomfortable situations.
Obedience is defined as the compliance with an order, request or law or submission to another’s authority. Obedience occurs when …show more content…
The very thing that determines who they are, what they like and what they will do is multifaceted and exclusive. While psychologist intend to understand the multifaceted and exclusive workings of the human mind they can agree that social influence play a vast role in the making of an individual, whether it be what they eat, if they choose to participate in bad habits, if they are active, if they can cause harm, if they can follow directions of authority and so on. The fundamental need for a human to belong is what drives an individual to succumb to the fault of social influence. While an individual may not be convicted to participate in all the social norms around them many of the steps that an individual takes on an everyday basis are influenced by society. By developing the behaviors and habits of an individual through social influence, obedience and conformity are able to prosper off of a key feature of determining individuality and strongly influence the makeup of an