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the student. The subject will ask the student questions if they get it wrong they will give them a shock with fifteen intervals each time they shock them it goes by fifteen until four hundred and fifty volts. Surprisingly twenty six of the forty subjects continued until four hundred and fifty volts which confirms…

The eighth amendment in the United States Constitution protects citizens against the harm of “cruel and unusual” punishment sentences. For example, the practice of corporal or bodily punishment of criminals is cruel and unusual. Sentences such as the death penalty, or death by fire-squad are specific kinds of punishment that has been executed rarely, yet many consider cruel and unusual. The topic of these forms of punishment is very controversial, in that these forms of punishment cannot be…

The Milgram experiment was one that shocked Americans. For the experiment Milgram had volunteers play the part of the teacher and actors play the role of the authority figure and the student. The teacher was ordered to give an electric shock for each wrong answer given by the student. The person in authority was there in order to be sure that the teacher continued the experiment. His results concluded that the majority of everyday Americans would administer a fatal shock to another human, simply…

carriers, usually electrons or electron-deficient atoms. The common symbol for current is the uppercase letter I. Potential difference The potential difference between two points.The units for potential difference are Joules per coulomb, or volts. (1 volt = 1 Joule/coulomb). Electrical charge Electric charge is carried by the electrons ( negative charge) and protons (positive charge) within an atom. The symbol for the electrical charge is Q. Resistance The symbol for the…

The plug-in hybrid is the way to go The future of automobiles is changing very rapidly. With a demand for less pollution and more efficient vehicles, we need to have alternatives to petroleum powered vehicles. As of now there are a couple of choices to choose from. You can currently buy a pure electric vehicle, a plug-in hybrid vehicle, or a regular hybrid vehicle, as an alternative to standard gasoline powered cars. Of the choices listed, the plug-in vehicle, is the best option for an…

This group of well-educated individuals included psychiatrists, middle class adults, and faculty members in the human behavioral sciences (1). They held a general consensus: Only one or two of the forty men would likely administer at least 300 volts to the learner, and none of the men (or “only a pathological fringe of about one in a thousand,” as Milgram wrote in his article, “The Perils of Obedience”) would pull the last switches labeled “XXX” (1). These assumptions could not have been further…

Assessment 1 Milgrim's experiment. By: Amanah Rajab 12E THEORY The agency theory states that a person would obey another one in terms of factors like the level of authority or reward incentives. This is usually seen when people are able to displace blame on authority for the action they have been asked to do. For example in an army when they asked to shoot people, the soldiers would do so, without question, and then displace blame on their commander insisting they were 'following…

1. Explain and discuss the background events and ideas which led to Milgram’s research. Stanley Milgram (1963) was a American social psychologist who carried out the destructive obedience experiment at Yale University in 1963. He was very interested in how far people would go in a situation where it meant hurting another person under an authority figures orders. If an authority figure affected obedience levels in everyday American men. This idea came about after Adolf Eichmann's trial in…

services, target audience, SWOT analysis, and internal and external threats. The key task is to take each objective and lay out the steps we intend to take to reach it. Now we must collaborate on positioning our product. “The Chevy Volt” 1. We must analyze the Volts features and decide how they distinguish themselves from our competitors, (i.e. Toyota) 2. Outline primary marketing strategies, then include various tactics we will use to reach prospects at every point. (These marketing tactics…

Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, who was known for his obedience experiment performed in the 1960s at Yale University. Milgram’s idea on purposing his experiment first came from the hideous acts of WWII. Milgram examined how individuals had the tendency to obey higher authority, such as Hitler, and still contain harmful acts on others, just because they were ordered to do so. According to Milgram (1963) he also believed that in some situations, that human propensity to “obey…