Research and Ethics Research is social psychological assist in understanding the behavior of human beings. It answers the question why people behave the way they do while ethics in research are the guidelines to be followed when any researcher is conducting a research. An example of the rules is safety of the participants and the freedom that they should have. There are so many controversies surrounding ethics and research since some of the ethical rules are not followed or some seem to be exaggerated so not applicable.
Conformity and Obedience to Authority Obedience is the compliance with command given by the authority. Milgram research on authority creates a clear picture on how obey authority based on different factors. His research …show more content…
In his experiment where students were taken in a prison environment and treated by the guard in different ways which brought out different reactions. In this case Zimbardo noticed when the students were exposed in such circumstances they would start rebelling and their personality would even change. The prisoners had to be addressed by numbers and not names, they had to were uniform(khaki) and one point they were harassed by the guards and at times they would conform to authority since that was their new environment. (Haslam & Reicher …show more content…
This is because it is the only to help establish certain facts in the psychological world. An example is that one of Zimbardo's Stanford Prison experiment on the power of social roles. He had to expose the participants in the given conditions so that he would know if their personality would change according to the treatment they got from the guards.
Arguments Against
Most researchers feel that the controversial research studies are unethical. They expose the participants in conditions that are not appropriate. An example is the research done by John Watson who wanted to test hoe fear was innate or a conditioned response. He used a nine months’ baby to see how he would react when different things were exposed to him. An example of things is a rat, a monkey and other things for two months without any sort of conditioning. The child was discharged before the he would be stabilized and later died at age 6. This is a harmful way of doing experiments since the participants do not even have a choice to make and they are exposed in extreme conditions which later affect them in future. The participants are not compensated
Conformity and Obedience to Authority Obedience is the compliance with command given by the authority. Milgram research on authority creates a clear picture on how obey authority based on different factors. His research …show more content…
In his experiment where students were taken in a prison environment and treated by the guard in different ways which brought out different reactions. In this case Zimbardo noticed when the students were exposed in such circumstances they would start rebelling and their personality would even change. The prisoners had to be addressed by numbers and not names, they had to were uniform(khaki) and one point they were harassed by the guards and at times they would conform to authority since that was their new environment. (Haslam & Reicher …show more content…
This is because it is the only to help establish certain facts in the psychological world. An example is that one of Zimbardo's Stanford Prison experiment on the power of social roles. He had to expose the participants in the given conditions so that he would know if their personality would change according to the treatment they got from the guards.
Arguments Against
Most researchers feel that the controversial research studies are unethical. They expose the participants in conditions that are not appropriate. An example is the research done by John Watson who wanted to test hoe fear was innate or a conditioned response. He used a nine months’ baby to see how he would react when different things were exposed to him. An example of things is a rat, a monkey and other things for two months without any sort of conditioning. The child was discharged before the he would be stabilized and later died at age 6. This is a harmful way of doing experiments since the participants do not even have a choice to make and they are exposed in extreme conditions which later affect them in future. The participants are not compensated