Opening Skinner’s Box
We all know that authority has a huge impact in our lives, but how far can authority push a person to do something they do not necessarily want to do. However they still obey authority’s rules because that’s how we have all been taught. As I was reading this novel I came to find out that most of authority figures can push a person so far that they would harm another human being. In the begging of Opening Skinner’s Box author Lauren Slater introduced a psychologist and scientist by the name of B.F Skinner. Skinner was named in Time magazine in 1971 the most influential living psychologist and in 1975 a survey identified him as the best known scientist in the United States. Skinner was known for establishing communities of …show more content…
A man who was one out of the thirty-five percent who did not obey the authority and shock a man almost to death, Slater wanted to know why he stopped and did not obey the rules. Comments made by Joshua like “that experiment was causing me so much stress that I might have a heart attack and I also did not wasn’t to hurt the guy (p.51).” By making this comment Slater believes there is more to Joshua’s story and she wants to know the real reason he did not obey the experimenter. Was it because Joshua was more worried about his own health and not the man who he was hurting?
In conclusion, Skinner and Milgram are two scientist who have tested many theories and held many experiments to try and figure out the human s behaviors. But why try to control others and their behaviors and why make the comment of having the government absorb these actions. If Skinner and Milgram have opened those doors to understand how the human mind works u am curtain someone out there right now is trying to figure out how to get that other thirty-five percent of the people to obey the rules of the authority
We all know that authority has a huge impact in our lives, but how far can authority push a person to do something they do not necessarily want to do. However they still obey authority’s rules because that’s how we have all been taught. As I was reading this novel I came to find out that most of authority figures can push a person so far that they would harm another human being. In the begging of Opening Skinner’s Box author Lauren Slater introduced a psychologist and scientist by the name of B.F Skinner. Skinner was named in Time magazine in 1971 the most influential living psychologist and in 1975 a survey identified him as the best known scientist in the United States. Skinner was known for establishing communities of …show more content…
A man who was one out of the thirty-five percent who did not obey the authority and shock a man almost to death, Slater wanted to know why he stopped and did not obey the rules. Comments made by Joshua like “that experiment was causing me so much stress that I might have a heart attack and I also did not wasn’t to hurt the guy (p.51).” By making this comment Slater believes there is more to Joshua’s story and she wants to know the real reason he did not obey the experimenter. Was it because Joshua was more worried about his own health and not the man who he was hurting?
In conclusion, Skinner and Milgram are two scientist who have tested many theories and held many experiments to try and figure out the human s behaviors. But why try to control others and their behaviors and why make the comment of having the government absorb these actions. If Skinner and Milgram have opened those doors to understand how the human mind works u am curtain someone out there right now is trying to figure out how to get that other thirty-five percent of the people to obey the rules of the authority