Thought experiment

In the book Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram conducts an experiment where he recruited 40 men. They found out about the experiment through an advertisement that was placed in a local newspaper, and it was an experiment that was a study of memory and learning, and he offered to pay each of them $4.50 if they participated for one hour. Each person would draw a card and it would either say “teacher” or “student” on the card. The teacher then reads off a list of word pairs to the student, and…

There are several similarities between Solomon Asch, Kurt Lewin and Stanley Milgram. All of the previously stated psychologists were fascinated with group dynamics in a social setting otherwise known as social psychology. Solomon Asch looked at conformity, compliance with laws and regulations, it is also behaviors which are most nearly related to socially acceptable normalities. When we know how to act in any group, or social setting life may seem to pass more smoothly, because we conform to the…

Situations are the cause of a person’s behavior or obedience to authority because personality has no effect on it, as the situation changes so does obedience to authority, the experiment written about by Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett, and the Stanford Prison Experiment. A person’s personality does not affect their obedience to authority. Most people would assume that based on a person’s personality, one could predict their reaction to a situation. For example, take a homeless…

Having test subjects perform potentially damaging experiments on other test subjects is immoral and unethical. How would you feel if in this class we ran unexplained, undetailed experiments on each student in the class for a grade and to test how obedient each student is? In Opening Skinner’s Box: Obscura, such an experiment takes place where you were forced into a corner. Mentally you were cornered and had no choice but to cooperate with the experiment. Your mind is telling you that what you’re…

Experimental and Forensic Psychology Report Two types of psychology are Experimental and Forensic. Exploring these two types of psychology will give insight to their positives and negative aspects. Looking at seven different questions such as types of jobs they do and hot topics, will give examples of these specifics. It can help with ideas of whether or not they might be for the reader, and how these jobs look from the inside out, and the outside in. The types of work Experimental…

The Stanford prison experiment was an investigation of the mental impacts of turning into a detainee or jail monitor. The investigation was directed at Stanford University on August 14–20, 1971, by a group of analysts drove by brain science teacher Philip Zimbardo utilizing undergrads. It was subsidized by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and was important to both the U.S. Naval force and Marine Corps as an examination concerning the reasons for strife between military gatekeepers and detainees…

learned from watching Luke get in trouble. Consider the Milgram experiment in relation to Cool Hand Luke and the inmates. The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology experiments where you would measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure. The authority figure would instruct them to perform acts that they didn’t want to do due to their conscience. The subjects would read questions to people they thought were the test subjects but were actually actors,…

Obedience is when an individual follows orders or ideas that have been placed by someone other than himself. Erich Fromm poses the question, “Why is man so prone to obey and why is it so difficult for him to disobey?” (624). Throughout all of human history we have been taught to follow certain rules and societal norms. We rely on others, whether it be a group of people or one individual; we are not accustomed to being alone and cannot stand to be so for a long period of time. We may think that…

of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and conduct unbecoming a united states marine was because they claimed they took an order from their authority. In Stanley Milgram’s recollection from his experiment, The Perils of Obedience, he tells of taking orders from higher up or an authority. In the experiment the “teachers” have to give the “learners” (the learners are actors) words. The “learner” is sitting in an electric chair and every time the “learner” gets it wrong, the “teacher” is told by…

In 1975 Milgram directed an experiment to study whether the Nazi killings in world war II carried out by the Germans, was due to the fact that the Germans were obedient to authority figures as this was the most common justification. Milgram devised the experiment to answer the question "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices? The acts committed of the genocide at World War II were scrutinised and…