Assessment 1
Milgrim's experiment.
By: Amanah Rajab 12E
THEORY
The agency theory states that a person would obey another one in terms of factors like the level of authority or reward incentives. This is usually seen when people are able to displace blame on authority for the action they have been asked to do. For example in an army when they asked to shoot people, the soldiers would do so, without question, and then displace blame on their commander insisting they were 'following orders'. The opposite of this is known as the autonomic state, where a person acts in accordance to their free will, and does not do something someone tells them to. In order to investigate this theory further I decided to conduct an experiment that analyses …show more content…
I also decided to make the experiment less generalised by including different conditions to which participants would display obedience or dissent. I decided to test my study to see whether the millions of commanders, soldiers etc, that participated in the Holocaust consciously shared the intent of its massacring nature. Milgram's experiments suggested that the millions of accomplices were merely following orders, although they went against their moral …show more content…
Firstly, i managed to get a whole load of responses from my study (a total of 65% who were willing to obey an authority) which shows that my experiments worked and proved the theory to an extent. Also, I showed the proof of displacement at the follow-up questionnaires and interviews, where the participants blamed the experimenter by relating the fact that they were obliged to obey orders that was given to them by a seemingly legitimate authoritative. My study could also be explained as fairly valid, since I included these studies in different scenarios.
However, I study was not all positive. Since my sample was only inclusive of males then my study, it was quite biased, as the responses in females could be very much different to these results. My study cannot be seen as representative of the American population as my sample was self-selected, and therefore again makes it biased, which means the results do not consistently apply for any case. I also did not further explain motivational factors that could trigger obedience wherein the participant could have been afraid of certain punishment if he did not abide by the orders
Milgrim's experiment.
By: Amanah Rajab 12E
THEORY
The agency theory states that a person would obey another one in terms of factors like the level of authority or reward incentives. This is usually seen when people are able to displace blame on authority for the action they have been asked to do. For example in an army when they asked to shoot people, the soldiers would do so, without question, and then displace blame on their commander insisting they were 'following orders'. The opposite of this is known as the autonomic state, where a person acts in accordance to their free will, and does not do something someone tells them to. In order to investigate this theory further I decided to conduct an experiment that analyses …show more content…
I also decided to make the experiment less generalised by including different conditions to which participants would display obedience or dissent. I decided to test my study to see whether the millions of commanders, soldiers etc, that participated in the Holocaust consciously shared the intent of its massacring nature. Milgram's experiments suggested that the millions of accomplices were merely following orders, although they went against their moral …show more content…
Firstly, i managed to get a whole load of responses from my study (a total of 65% who were willing to obey an authority) which shows that my experiments worked and proved the theory to an extent. Also, I showed the proof of displacement at the follow-up questionnaires and interviews, where the participants blamed the experimenter by relating the fact that they were obliged to obey orders that was given to them by a seemingly legitimate authoritative. My study could also be explained as fairly valid, since I included these studies in different scenarios.
However, I study was not all positive. Since my sample was only inclusive of males then my study, it was quite biased, as the responses in females could be very much different to these results. My study cannot be seen as representative of the American population as my sample was self-selected, and therefore again makes it biased, which means the results do not consistently apply for any case. I also did not further explain motivational factors that could trigger obedience wherein the participant could have been afraid of certain punishment if he did not abide by the orders