Discussion of the Stanley Milgram’s "Perils of Obedience" As Milgram writes in his article, for some people obedience is a deeply “ingrained behavior tendency”, which can create an impulse that can override past ideas in morality and ethics. While his experiment focused closely on the psychology behind response to obedience, his central idea conveyed substantial themes which bore on conceptions of professional ethics. One of these themes involved the previously underestimated significances of the
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Shannon Casey March 8, 2012 Exercise Paper 3.4 Exercise 3.4: In this chapter, we’ve described a variety of methodologies (means of collecting data), including classic experiments, fieldwork, interviews, and surveys. Each has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. In a one to two page paper, briefly describe the following: a. What you see as the strengths and weaknesses of each methodology discussed in the chapter (classic experiments, fieldwork, interviews, and surveys) The four methodologies
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Syphilis Experiment The Tuskegee Syphilis experiment was a 40 years study from 1932 to 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama. The experiment was conducted on a group of 399 impoverished and illiterate African American sharecroppers. This disease was not; however revealed to them by the US Government. They were told they were going to receive treatment for bad blood. The study proved to be one of the most horrendous studies carried out that disregarded the basic ethical principles of conduct. It symbolized
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Similarly, to Sherrer, Valentine (2011) performed an experiment to show the effect of cross-examination on the accuracy of an eyewitness testimony. Twenty-two students watched a video of a crime individually or in pairs. The paired witnesses discussed the video with their co-witnesses. Yet, they had not known they had seen slightly different versions. Participants in that had pairs recalled less accurately than individual witnesses. In a cross-examination, there was no difference in accuracy between
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and Stimulus Discriminability Research Critical Evaluation The study of Exposure, Satiation and Stimulus Discriminability is a scientific study of the effects of exposure of different stimulus on the male brain. Not just how stimulus is effected by exposure but how much exposure and how much satiation is optimal for the male brain to perceive a stimulus as good, bad, likeable or unlikeable. (Philip Shaver, 1972, p. 270) The study conducted used four different experiments. The first three experiments
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Psychology summer work 1. Research Stanley Milgram’s study on obedience and make a summary of the following; • The aim of the study • The hypothesis (or theory) he was testing • The method used • The results obtained • Milgram’s conclusions • Any criticisms or issues that have been raised about experiment and/or Milgram’s conclusion The aim of study To find out the willingness of his study volunteers to obey an authoritative figure who told them to perform acts that go against
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could be influenced into committing atrocities for example, Germans in WWII (Taylor, Peplau & Sears, 2006). Milgram selected participants for his experiment by advertising, through the newspaper, for male participants to take part in a psychology study of learning at Yale University. The procedure was that the volunteer was paired with another person and they drew straws to find out who would be the “learner” and who would be the “teacher.” The draw was fixed so that the participant was always the
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Exp Econ (2009) 12: 87–92 DOI 10.1007/s10683-008-9197-1 Measuring conditional cooperation: a replication study in Russia Benedikt Herrmann · Christian Thöni Received: 29 August 2007 / Accepted: 30 January 2008 / Published online: 10 April 2008 © Economic Science Association 2008 Abstract We replicate the strategy-method experiment by Fischbacher et al. (Econ. Lett. 71:397–404, 2001) developed to measure attitudes towards cooperation in a one-shot public goods game. We collected data from
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using whilst the experiment is happening. For example, the research method could be a lab experiment, field experiment, correlation, case studies, observations etc. Within this essay, I am going to consider consent, briefing, counselling and the twin study. First of all, i would like to talk about consent. Consent is a key thing when dealing and carrying out studies within psychology. Consent is important because it is a legal procedure and it is given to ensure that all participants are aware of all
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UW Bothell Learning Technologies Blog Rotating Header Image Research on Flipping Study Habits for Better Understanding Aug 16th, 2013 by UWB LT. In a recent post written in the Computing Education Blog, two studies were presented discussing the benefits of changing, reversing, and/or flipping the classroom model in order to increase student comprehension. In these studies, data was collected on how well students understood concepts when they were tested on the materials before studying and how
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