Experiment

was an ordinary man of about middle age. He conducted an experiment to test the obedience of an individual under the authority of an individual. When orders are given from an authority figure does it change the course of action of an individual? History has repetitively shown soldiers and individuals making decisions based upon an authority figure’s instruction rather than what their own self conscience would choose. The Milgram experiment was designed to test this theory in a controlled…

Experiment Essay The film Experiment is based off an experiment in the 1960’s to study the reactions of a person doing what they’re told. This experiment is greatly compared to the Nazi’s in Germany because of it’s results it questions if the Nazi’s who killed the Jews because they were told to are innocent. The Nazi’s who just did what they were told still had the choice to stop and say this is wrong and the Nazi’s who influenced what they did are greatly to blame as well. Only 35% of the…

After reading about the two cases, Subject to Aboriginal Experiments and The Tuskegee Experiment, I can’t help but wonder do researchers who began with good intentions, become selfish people that lets their experiments lose its moral in order to obtain their goals. Its immoral that researchers tries to take advantages of those at a disadvantages, such as those hungry children and poor black men. In general, experiments should first be approved by the Institutional Review Boards, and even if its…

John Watson used an experiment with an eight month old baby named Albert to conclude that adult fears are conditioned in early life (Schultz & Schultz, 2011). According to Classics in the History of Psychology (n.d.), the experiment began with a perfectly stable infant. The first step in the experiment was a series of emotional tests. The infant was shown a white rat, a rabbit, a dog, and a monkey in various forms. The findings were recorded. Albert showed no fear during these baseline tests.…

The general topic that the article is addressing: The rule of "guards" and "prisoners" in the context of an experimental simulation of a prison environment, and the research purpose is to help to identify and isolate the various processes which motivate aggressive/submissive behavior within a 'total institution' such as a prison. The author hypothesis might be called the dispositional hypothesis, that the state of the social institution of prison is due to the "nature" of the people…

The Milgram Experiment In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram (1993-1984) began an experiment that would test to see how obedient people would be no matter the circumstances. One experiment Milgram performed consisted of volunteers shocking someone they did not know if he or she did not answer a question correctly. As the questions are answered incorrectly, the voltage would rise. Unknown to the volunteer, the subject that is being shocked is an actor that is not being electrocuted, and the volunteer…

The Stanford Experiment ethical or un-ethical, why and what was the purpose, what was learned and what did the Stanford Experiment contribute in the scientific community of studying human behavior? To understand and answer these questions one must start with the beginning, the very genesis of what is one of the most ground breaking experiments in my own perspective opinion. The Stanford Prison Experiment which was conducted in 1971 by psychologist Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues. This was a…

Stanley Milgram created a beneficial distinction between two levels of social control and incorporated them into one experiment. The first level was the influence that a higher status held compared to the status of a lower individual and the second level was the impact of authority that the higher status individual had over an “awe-inspired” peer. Milgram created an obedience experiment using a wide variety of participants that ranged from postal workers to high school teachers, an electric…

and were also furious at the experimenter and also faced extreme discomfort when doing such a task of submitting the shocks but they still obeyed at no cost and delivered the shocks however from the person in authority. When Milgram repeated his experiment he also found similar results. The main founding Milgram came out with was that the amount of obedience is reached is when the physical or the emotional distance of the learner (the one being shocked) from the teacher would influence the level…

part in his experiment. You figure that you could use the extra cash and figure that it’s a good way to help out. You and 20 other students are accepted to participate, and you are split into two groups, prisoners and guards. The only instructions given were “...do whatever they thought was necessary to maintain law and order in the prison and to command the respect of the prisoners. No physical violence [is] permitted.” So far this experiment appears to be a fairly innocent experiment, but you…