Allen Stanford

According to Stanley Milgram there are various situational variables that can clarify such elevated amounts of a person being obedient. Ordinary people following the rules and what is asked of them in particular position they are in. For instance, in employment, even if they don’t believe in what is asked of them. Many people have found themselves doing things that are destructive and incompatible with fundamental standards of morality. Few people are weak in resisting authority and afraid to…

For this experiment, I interviewed a six year old female named Destiny. For the first assessment we read Aesop’s The Wolf & the Crane, where the wolf tricks the crane into helping him in promises of a reward and then informs her that her reward was letting her live after helping him. I asked Destiny what she thought the story meant (what they were trying to say) and she responded with a concrete operational response such as “the wolf lied to the crane because he didn’t give her a reward like he…

“R”Rovers are an important part of our lives. They allow us to see beyond our earth. We made our rovers to help us understand the scientific process and how to create an experiment. Making this rover also refreshed our memory of the concept of elastic energy. Not to rub it in your face, but EarthToy Designs enlisted in our help to design this rover, too. They asked us to make a rover that can be adjusted to go different distances. Of course, we have to think about the environment while making…

The research I conducted gave me a new view and influenced my thinking to produce the claim: In some cases, morality plays a role in human experimentation. The research provided ample information to how many cases of human experimentation has justification as well as morality in most cases. For example, an article I read was about how human experimentation has many rules were made to ensure safety among the subjects. Committees of distinct individuals (RECs) help rule out unethical and dangerous…

The use of deception in psychological researches is a controversial issue eliciting many debates in which some psychologist argues the benefits of using it such as increasing internal validity and others challenge it because of potential harm and distress it creates in participants. These debates are developed in part as a consequence of the Milgram’s obedience experiment in 20th century, the time the use of deception was commonplace. As reported by Larry Christensen (1984), because the…

psychology at Stanford University, ran a study titled The Stanford Prison Experiment. Both of these experiments prove that by human nature, people are scared to go against the norm because they fear the feeling of being judged, different, and the mere idea of being alone. In Solomon E. Asch Opinions and Social Pressure, subjects would either conform to the group's wrong decision or defiantly stand out. The subjects who did stand out however, had such a hard time doing…

According to this week’s forum post instructions, I was assigned the yes view in regards to our chosen topic. Therefore, I must state that Stanley Milgram’s study of disobedience was unethical for numerous reasons, however, the two reasons that will be discussed include deception, and psychological harm to the human subjects involved. In regards to deception, the participants were misled as to the exact nature of the study for which they had volunteered, Milgram made them believe they were…

In 1961 and 1962, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments designed to test an ordinary citizen’s capacity to inflict physical harm on another human being. Based on the results, Milgram concluded the core of obedience occurs when a person perceives himself as the means for carrying out the wishes of another, and therefore no longer considers himself responsible for his actions. Were Milgram’s experiments ethical? Were his conclusions valid? At least two authors, Ian Parker…

The two concepts in social psychology are aggression and Self-concept. I believe that aggression played a major role in the Stanford Prison Experiment because both the guards and the prisoners got aggressive during the experiment. The prisoners show agression and rebellion after the second day by using clothes to lock their doors and make it difficult for the guards to open them and get into the cells. The idea of self-concept was lost from the prisoners and the guards since after only a few…

Norcross’s Fred thought experiment is an imaginative scenario in which he tries to draw a comparison to factory farms in the United states to discuss the morality of them. In his scenario, a man named Fred is on trial for torturing puppies. Fred’s defense is that torturing the puppies provides him with a pleasure to taste the goodness of chocolate, the sense in which he can’t attain any other way due to an accident that happened to him. Although ridiculous, the story is analogous to factory…