to conduct an experiment that is still being talked about and analyzed fifty years later. Milgram’s experiments where immoral and had significant negative effects on the participants. Does he deserve the credit and praise for his work? In Milgram’s study he placed a add asking for volunteers then he mislead them into thinking they were involved
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In this experiment, an experimenter conducts the study, a teacher carries out the experimenter’s commands, and a learner, who is an actor, takes memory tests. The teacher asks the learner questions, and if the learner gets them wrong, the teacher must shock him with increasingly higher voltage. The teacher then faces a tough decision: should he finish the experiment, or should he defy authority? This question proves to be important for the study, because it focuses on how individuals react to authoritative
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In the "Opie & Anthony - Louise Ogborn McDonalds Security Tape" they're several psychological reasoning in why Lousia the (victim) obeyed the demands placed upon her. Some of the psychological response that the victim showed signs of are obedience, conformity, and abnormal behavior. The victim being of a young age leads me to believe her reaction to the commands of others around her made her more vulnerable than an adult would respond in her situation. While going through such distress Lousia showed
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her stated position that the Milgram Disobedience Study was ethical. Waltenburg asserted that deception is common place and warranted in many psychological research studies. She provided an example in which research participants are frequently provided with sugar pills versus other subjects given the drug being tested. Regarding Milgram’s study, Waltenburg stated that Milgram properly conducted an interview with all subjects just as soon as the study was over with and that all participants appeared
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group of people seeing everyone is doing the same job with without anyone refusing they’re more willing to be obedience to comply to the unmoral deeds especially if they make hatred seem more convincing about the other subject. This will come to the study way the Nazis’ did the things they did to the Jews during the Holocaust. Even if they didn’t want to do these things to the Jews by their peers around them doing the same thing there more willing to convince themselves that it’s okay and just a part
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Name: Andraie Lewis Eng. 122 May 8,2013 Blind obedience Society often view obedience as a good quality or trait to have; employers want obedient employees and parents often wish for obedient children. Being obedient means that an individual shows respect for an authority figure and will carry out the instructions they are given; when someone is obedient they are widely accepted by society, because they do whatever it is that society asks
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experiments described all focus on Skinner’s primary study, that of ‘operant conditioning’. Skinner brought into question the concept of free will, instead believing that all human decisions are the result of consequences, both positive and negative. He felt that through a system of positive reinforcement, entire countries could be changed to compliant citizens. In fact, the book tells us, he openly admitted that he hoped to one day use his studies for fascist goals in the nation. His primary experiment
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The Willowbrook experiment was an opportunistic experiment in which mentally ill children were the victims of and parents were deceived into giving their consent through unethical means such as blackmail. Children were living in a school that was overcrowded and hepatitis was rampant. Instead of the school raising their sanitation standards they took advantage of this and began experimenting with the virus and injecting it into the children. These children had no idea what they were having done
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and identity will remain confident. The volunteers were informed the experiment would only take about five minutes of their time and if they still willing to participate we can get started. I gave the person the list to study and informed them they would have one minute to study the list before moving on to the second stage. I set a timer for one minute. Once done, I removed the list and handed them the math page and informed them that there is no right or wrong answers and to do their best to answer
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factor in anything. Without communication, nothing would be done properly. Types of communication have evolved as the years have passed. Technology has helped people to communicate with one another via Internet and e-mail. The following explains a study that addressed the effectiveness of e-mail and the Internet as international business communication teaching devices. Japanese students were paired with students in a business communication class in the U.S. Problem Teachers all around the world
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