Electric shock

Because the roles in this experiment are fixed, the learner is the only component in this experiment that will endure the agonizing pain of the electric shocks. Being that there was forty men who answered the newspaper advertisement, the Milgram Experiment was to be conducted a total of forty times; therefore, the student (Milgram 's confedetate) was to be put through agonizing pain for forty trials…

More precisely, Milgram (1963) measured the levels of obedience present in participants whom were instructed by an experimenter to administer electric shocks to another…

The electric shock experiment on obedience to authority was conducted by Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale University in the early 1960s. Being a Jewish himself, he was aware of the mass murder performed by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials (McLeod, 2007). They claimed that they were simply following orders from their leaders. Milgram was therefore interested in investigating whether German soldiers in the Nazi killings in World War II were…

teacher and the accomplice was always the learner. Once the participant assumed their role the learner was taken into a room next door, and with the participant watching, he was then strapped to a chair with wired electrodes, which was connected to the shock generator in the next room with the teacher. Once the learner was attached instructions of the experiment followed. The main goal was having the learner memorize connections between various pairs of words. The teacher (who was the true…

Stanley Milgram found a few contributors to test out his theory. Before he started his experiment he had to pick a teacher and a student, who each got a piece of paper to decide which one is going to give the shocks and which one was going to take the shocks. The learner was strapped up to an electric chair while the teacher would be on the other side talking through a microphone providing word pairs. The teacher would tell the student a list of words, then the learner read back the list of…

Learned Helplessness Any animal which has realized it has no control over its own actions after dealing with pain or abuse with no escape for an extended amount of time a person or other animal has learned to be helpless. Through no fault of ones own inescapable punishments encircle ones life and flight from that inevitable punishment soon permeates ones mind resulting in no escape and no way to decipher between good and bad actions and in most cases learning is severely impaired.. They can…

In Milgram’s experiment participants continued to give the shocks to the student even after the student begged the teacher to stop. In some occasions, the teacher stopped for a few moments but continued when the man in the white coat told them to proceede. In a particular moment, the last teacher (one with white shirt and color collar) continued to give the student the shock but not before being reassured that in case that something happened to the student he would…

soldiers led lines of naked Jews to their deaths in gas chambers at grimy concentration camps across Europe while Milgram’s subjects were merely asked to flip a switch and shock a man on the other side of the wall. German soldiers watched their victims die while Milgrim’s subjects were assured by the experimenter that the shocks “may be painful, but they’re not dangerous” (1). But is such an argument actually valid? Most antagonistic authority figures like Adolf Hitler and his fellow Nazis would…

is concerned with the effects of punishment on learning” (Milgram, 1974). The teachers would recite a sequence of words. The learner would be expected to recall the words connected to each other. However, the learner is also secured tightly to an electric chair during this experiment.…

experiment a Slight shock of 45V is administered to the participant in order to show him what the Learner will be experiencing and to further portray the experiment as authentic (Milgram, 1963). However, the participant is not aware that this will be the only real shock in the experiment. The confederate will not be shocked because he is an actor in the situation (Milgram, 1963). He does act as if being shocked, however. In the Voice Feedback condition the Learner starts to react to the shocks…