Social psychology

In order to understand the word stigma, it is helpful to understand the components of stigma. Stigma is developed through Attitudes, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Attitudes can be positive or negative. We form attitudes based on our views of the world such as media and culture impact. Stereotypes are usually negative thoughts made about certain types of individuals or groups based on their race, gender, and mental health. Prejudice refers to negative attitudes toward particular…

(a) Many may question the intentions of people’s actions, whether it is for personal gain or truly attempting offer aid to an individual in distress. Empathy is seen as a leading factor that initiates someone help another. The main idea taken away from both readings in the difference between egoistic and altruistic motivation is the ultimate end goal of the person offering relief. An egoistic end goal refers to increasing personal gain or decreasing personal pain; while, an altruistic motivation…

Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist, began an experiment in July 1961 that would drastically alter society’s perception of obedience. Milgram formulated a test to comprehend how far people would perform when coerced into obeying an authoritative figure. The experiment involved subjects being tricked into believing they were electrically shocking another individual; physical and emotional harm to the subjects was followed, resulting from the extreme tension they encountered.…

Imagine that you are a doctor and you are getting ready to conduct x-rays on one person from each nationality known to society. After the medical examinations were over, you are beginning to inspect what they look like. You begin to get confused on who’s x-ray was who’s, since you found that there is no variation. None of the bones are darker in certain bodies than in the others, no one is constructed differently. For every single person has no differentiation, they are the same. If we are able…

authority. There are certain conditions that should exist for obedience to happen which includes “The person giving the order was close at hand and perceived to be a legitimate authority figure (Myers, 2017), this evidence is shown in the experiment of Social Psychologist Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment where a teacher…

They don’t let these people of power dictate their way of life and they don’t allow them to create these false realities of ideal societies. Philip Zimbardo, Janice Gibson, Mika Fatouros, Erich Fromm, and Solomon Asch, all of whom are well known social psychologists and writers, have studied the effects of this form of disobedience and how it benefits those people. In the film, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest , we see this act of disobedience portrayed by McMurphy, from outside of the ward, when…

Experiment,” 2012). This amazes me that he agreed with everyone else and not once did he go against what they were choosing. Chapter 4 talks about how as humans we have a tendency and desire to conform to what others think; this is categorized as a social error. In the video…

Angelica McMullenInoculation Theory is one of the methods for preventing persuasion by strengthening our existing beliefs or attitudes. The book compares it to the biological response we have to a vaccine when we try to prevent an illness by a virus. The methodexposes people to weak arguments in favor of the opposition. This exposure to weakened arguments allows the subject to develop stronger refutations to the oppositions message. Just like how a vaccine prepares the body to fight a virus,…

ethics of milgram Controversy in Ethics of Obedience Research." Controversy in Ethics of Obedience Research. Web. 12 Nov. 2014. <http://cla.calpoly.edu/~cslem/101/Obey/Ethics.html>." Although the test many seem harmful and stressful, after a year none of the subjects were found to be harmed by their experience. where 83% were glad to be part of the experiment, only 1% were not.”Milgram had believed that many of the subjects would disobey the experimenter at 150 volts (1).“ “When milgram…

In the military, people follow orders from superiors on a daily basis, even when the orders are not morally sound. The article “The Perils of Obedience” written by Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist and infamous for his obedience experiment, focuses on the frequent human nature to submit to an authoritative figure. Milgram links his results to the reason why some Nazis carried out such ruthless acts: obedience overrules ethics in most cases (Milgram 89). Relatedly, Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee…