Stanford prison experiment

Someone once said, “Morality is defined as doing what is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.” In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the citizens of Maycomb can be described as followers. This often leads to disgraceful and harmful behavior towards people, including uncalled for judgment. The citizens of Maycomb are following their peers and are participating in many sinful acts, instead of being there own person and being seen as righteous. This is very evident in the way that…

The primary purpose of the Milgram's obedience/electroshock experiment was to test people's obedience to authority. I feel the test was able to fulfill its objectives. It was successful because it should that the majority of people tested were willing to fully accept, with some reservations, what a authority figure instructed them to do. In The Real World by Ferris and Stein (2008), we are told that to conducted the experiment a system was set were a research subject was assigned being a…

importance of obedience and how it is so powerful that it can overthrow a person’s demeanor and their values on life. In order to understand the effects of authority on others, such as the ones on the Jews in Nazi Germany, Milgram constructs an experiment in order to examine how much pain a regular person would inflict on another person because they were authorized to do so. This will create some sort of conflict between the authority and the subject’s upstanding imperatives against hurting…

Diana Baumrind often disagreed with the ethics of the Milgram Experiment; however, Ian Parker took on a different perspective than she. Diana Baumrind, author of, Review of Stanley Milgram 's Experiments on Obedience, claims in his experiments the ethics he possessed were immoral and wrong. Throughout her article she continually disagreed with everything Milgram had "achieved", starting from the first experiments results which appeared as a review in American Psychologist in 1963 (Baumrind 89).…

of how far someone will go in order to abide by an authority figure, and the outcome of his experiment was not what was expected. The experiment included highly educated individuals (Yale undergraduates) who all probably execute individuality in non-pressure situations, but when faced with an intense situation and someone telling them what to do, they caved to the voice of an authority figure. The experiment involved harming someone at the command of a voice, and strictly obeying for the sake…

Obeying an Authority Figure Isn’t Always the Best Decision Why do individuals follow an authority figures’ instructions if it meant possibly harming another person? This situation was tested in the Milgram experiment to get a better understanding of why the Nazi’s followed orders that resulted in killing thousands of Germans during the Holocaust. In most cases, people would not harm another individual, but it’s an authority figure who is giving the commands so it is hard to say “no”. People obey…

Knowledge of change blindness and other illusions has been around for decades, with a lot of experiments done to further our understanding of the principle. Change blindness occurs in everyday situations that people are completely unaware of. In the Invisible Gorilla, there was a study done showing film to a group of undergraduate students. They were…

Milgram’s 1963 experiment on obedience tested an individual’s wiliness to follow the instructions of authority figures. Milgram wanted to determine if people would harm others, even giving them a shock at the level as to cause death, on the orders of another. The results showed people, when commanded by an authority figure, would carry out the order. This paper will exam the original experiment, history that led to the experiment, and the controversy that arose following the experiment. It…

Based on the understanding of the experiment, ethics in research, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) and American Society of Criminology (ASC) Code of Ethics, it is in my opinion that the experiments were unethical. The experiment was about teachers administering electronic shocks to learners, pretenders, for each incorrect answer given. The teachers were the actual subject of the experiment but were not aware. Milgram may have succeeded in proving the concept of obedient to authority…

In 1962, Dr. Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to test the authority of the average American citizen. Milgram gathered a group of forty men to test their obedience to an authoritative figure. Each subject was brought into the experiment under the impression that they were going to be evaluated on how well they were able to learn a series of word combinations. The way they were encouraged to remember these combinations was by using a form of negative extrinsic motivation. Each time a wrong…