Obedience Essay

they actually are. In Lauren Slater's Opening Skinner's Box, there's an experiment that tests one's obedience. This experiment relates to the boys in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, through the instances that they follow Jack because he seems to have great authority, and he convinces them to do what he says. Also that the conch grants respect to whoever holds it. The experiment of obedience relates to the boys…

to the extent at which obedience and submitting to higher authority works in our society. Obedience can be defined as compliance with an order, request or submitting to a higher authority. There are certain conditions that should exist for obedience to happen which includes “The person giving the order was close at hand and perceived to be a legitimate authority figure (Myers, 2017), this evidence is shown in the experiment of Social Psychologist Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment where a…

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…

Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist, shares his results from an experiment he conducted in regards to obedience of authority in 1963 in, “The Perils of Obedience.” His experiment illustrated that when put under particular circumstances, ordinary citizens have the capability to perform terrible and unexpected actions (Milgram 85). Milgram rationalizes these proceedings through the conclusion that the average individual will decide to please the experimenter rather than resist his…

In his article "The Perils of Obedience," Stanley Milgram describes what, in his opinion, was an ethical experiment performed at Yale University designed to test how ordinary people respond to authority figures' direct orders, even if the orders violate the test subjects' conscience. In order to prevent psychological damage, Milgram's test subjects were reconciled with their victims after the experiment was terminated; he also claims there was an attempt to reduce tensions that resulted from the…

Protection and Obedience Are Not Reciprocal The true cause of the American Revolution can be traced back to the discrepancy in thought between the British and Americans. From the British point of view, the Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, and Stamp Act seemed to be reasonable efforts to administer the colonies. To Americans, however, the British supervision appeared to be a perturbing intrusion into colonial practices of self-taxation by elected colonial assemblies. With this discrepancy came a…

Psychologist Stanley Milgram performed his obedience experiment, which would later be repeated, at Yale University in the 1960’s. Milgram’s experiment was based on examining the control that those in authority had over people’s actions, and how far that authority can push a person. Most people listen and obey those put in authority over them. Obedience is defined as “a change in behavior in response to the commands of others”. Although obedience is less common than conformity and compliance in…

Jerry M. Burger is a Psychology professor for Santa Clara University. Burger replicated Stanley Milgram’s obedience studies from the 1960’s and 1970s. In Milgram’s study, Milgram wanted to test “the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience” (Saul McLeod, 2007). He conducted this experiment by having an authority figure, a “learner”, and 40 participants who went through the experiment at different times. The participant was supposed to ask the learner a series of questions…

I choose to watch Stanley Milgram “Obedience” study, where basically Milgram focused on the conflict between obedience to authority and conscience. He wanted to know what obedience does to people, and was curious to know if obedience had anything to do with genocide. He wondered if soldiers killed people just because they were following orders from higher ranked officers. Milgram gathered his participants by advertising via newspaper, particiacally for male participants. His study consisted of…

the mother because he respects her right of command. We can say that most of the societies in our era work the same way. Granted, this could lead to a great society, or the exact opposite. But, what is a “good society”, and what does it need? “The Obedience to Authority Experiment of Stanley…