Leland Stanford

Throughout the years I have always found myself being attached to my parents. I think this kind of attachment began when I was lost in a mall for three hours and couldn’t find my parents. This incident triggered an instant fear when I was young and didn’t know where my parents were. I always thought I would have to go through the same stress I went through when I lost them if I did get lost again. The journalist Paul Tough talks about an opposite problem that made me remembered my own issue in…

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even flash to some memory you have about someone you know who went to prison. Prisoner 8612 was the first prisoner to break and leave the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. Whether he was just just faking his unstable state or if he was truly unable to handle the harsh treatment, we don 't know. It was under Philip Zimbardo’s leadership that the Stanford Prison Experiment took average, everyday boys, like Prisoner number 8612, and made them believe they were trapped in a real life prison. It…

Conformity is the adjusting of opinions, judgments, or behavior so that it matches the opinions, judgments, or behavior of other people. This peaks in early adolescence. This happens for two main reasons; The desire to be liked and accepted by the group (also known as normative social influence), and the desire to be right. If one is not sure, he or she will look to the group for answers (also known as informational social influence). There have been countless social experiments used to test…

This assignment discusses the role group membership plays, with an introduction to the components of a group. It emphasises the self, the group and interaction as the different variables in group membership. Subsequently, the role of group membership is discussed; first, in research by Asch (1956), with its effect on the self; second, in research by Sherif (1935), with its effect on the group and formation of social norms; lastly, in research by Zimbardo, Maslach & Haney (2000), with its effect…

In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment to investigate into how obedient people would be when instructed by an authority figure. He was inspired by the Nuremburg War Criminal trials in Germany after the Holocaust. He wanted to know why so many people followed Hitler’s orders. To gather participants for the study, he placed an ad in a newspaper offering four dollars to be a part of the study. He told the participants that they would randomly be…

Ethical Concerns Experimental design is a field whereby ethical concerns are almost always a top priority. Although most individuals see ethical norms as common sense, they often vary from culture to culture and there can be discrepancies in the interpretation even by members within a certain cultural group. Furthermore, it is vital to determine any potential ethical concerns contained within an experiment and address those concerns in order to reduce their potential impact on the results.…

An Academic Review of the Following Text: Cialdini, Robert B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. New York: Collins, 2007. Print. Summary Weapons of Automatic Influence The book begins with Cialdini introducing his idea of “weapons of automatic influence.” He recounts a story of a shop owner on an Indian reservation who was having trouble selling a certain set of turquoise` jewelry during the height of tourist season. In a desperate attempt to get rid of the merchandise, she asks her…

People often do or take parts in acts that are not only morally wrong but also extremely painful to the victim. When someone is order by a higher authority figure they do what was ordered forgetting about their morals and the consequences that it may have. It is important to understand that just because the order was given by a person with a high status or rank it doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. In 1963 Stanly Milgram a psychologist at Yale University carried out an experiment where he…

I found this film very insightful and I was very shocked to see how people can abuse of others when they are put in higher positions and “have more power”. It is no surprise to me that people are abusive and controlive in the real world, as these things have can easily see played out in many instances, however I was pretty disturbed with the level of malicious treatment given towards the “prisoners” by the guards even though the whole scenario was merely an experiment and not a real life prison.…