The Stanford Prison Experiment Essay

Question of Obedience Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, conducted an experiment that showed the effects of obedience. In his experiment, test subjects were given two choices: obey immoral demands from an authority figure or follow one’s own conscience. In his results, Milgram did not find any resistance to the immoral demands despite those demands hurting other individuals. From this experiment, the issue of obedience became controversial and created many questions in America…

justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors. I. Participants: May 1962 the experiment is conducted in an elegant interaction laboratory at Yale university, the participants are 40 white males who are between the ages of 20 and 50 who were from the New Haven area II. Apparatus and materials: Stanley Milgram used a machine(…

psychologists, Solomon E. Asch, Stanley Milgram, and an author by the name of Doris Lessing were intrigued by the concept of obedience. Stanley Milgram was curious about the reason humans blindly follow an authority figure. This led Milgram to conduct an experiment regarding this topic. Solomon E. Asch was curious about the social pressure groups placed on an individual and their own beliefs and opinions. Doris Lessing focused her interest on the Western culture’s obedience.…

not have been further from the truth. Twenty-five of the 40 men continued the experiment to the very end, even after listening to the learner’s shouts of protest, agonized screaming, and, ultimately, ominous silence…

Between Milgram and Zimbardo, their main objective for their experiments was to research on human behavior. In both instances, they had predicted their results but were shocked to find out that the results were total opposite of what they thought would happen. However, both experiments had many similarities and differences on how their experiment had affected their subjects. Even though these research experiments were conducted years ago, it does matter to society today by how people obey…

Solomon Asch, a social psychologist conducted a series of experiments called Asch conformity to study how the behavior of a certain group influence the behavior of an individual. In his experiment he formed a group and asked them to choose a line from a given set of lines that corresponds to the target line. In this group all the members except the subject were confederates. The experimenter had informed the confederates to give incorrect answers on purpose. The purpose was to know if the real…

in return. To protect the results of the experiment, subjects were told they would be participating in an experiment that examined taste sensitivity in males. Since their saliva would be taken for hormone analysis, subjects were asked not to eat, drink, smoke, or brush 1 hour before testing. After sitting 6-ml of saliva into a cup their testosterone levels were tested. That will be referred to as Time 1. The subjects were split into two groups, experiment subjects and control subjects. The…

includes experiments on mice, rats, cats, dogs, monkeys and much more animal species for cosmetic use. Despite that it might help with new discoveries in science, animal testing is a form of abuse that no animal should have to undergo. Animals are not the only organism that is able to be tested on, many great treatments and discoveries have been tested on organisms other than animals. Animal testing is considered a form of abuse because the animals are neglected, forced into experiments that are…

controversial Milgram Experiment confirms this idea. Researchers in this study discovered that participants did not go against the orders of a Head-Scientist ordering them to continue with an experiment (an actor convinced the participants that continuing would endanger his life) if the Head Scientist stood close to the…

as prison guards. The prison guards were instructed not to physically harm the prisoners, but anything else they did to enhance their dominance was okay. Three guards controlled twelve prisoners, and the guards rotated for patrolling. Zimbardo wanted to see how quickly the guards would adapt to their role as actual prison guards and assert their authority and dominance on the prisoners. He saw that they adapted too quickly; they developed the “authoritarian personality” (pg. 231). The prison…