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I was assigned to watch two films outside of class in criminology for this assignment. I have not ever been assigned to watch a film for any of my classes outside of class. So I thought to myself, this is going to be one of my least favorite assignments I have ever done. Little did I know, that this assignment would turn into one of my favorite assignments I have ever been asked to do. The first film was a film called “Zimbardo Speaks: The Lucifer Effect and the Psychology of Evil”. The second film we were assigned to watch was a film called “The Stanford Prison Experiment”. Both of these films stated very interesting and reliable points throughout the duration of the film. The points that these films were making really made a significant impact …show more content…

Blind obedience, according to the PowerPoint slide, is “a concept that refers to people doing things because they were told to do so by an ‘authority figure’—they haven’t questioned that person’s authority”. It is absolutely incredible what type of outcomes this type of obedience can create. A few examples about blind obedience were stated in the film “Zimbardo Speaks: The Lucifer Effect and the Psychology of Evil”. The Milgram Experiment was one of the best one that I understood as I was listening to Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s speech. The experiment was tested on 1,000 ordinary people from two towns. The people in this experiment were said to be “good apples”. Adults from the ages of 20-50 were the only ones selected to take a part in this experiment. Absolutely no students or teenagers were allowed in this experiment. The participants in this experiment included a teacher, student, and an authority figure wearing a lab coat. The student was placed in another room and the authority figure and the teacher were in the same room. The purpose of the experiment was to see if the teacher, the one being tested, would be willing to shock the student and eventually kill him if told to do so by an authority figure. The teacher would ask a question to the student and if answered incorrectly the teacher had to shock the student by pressing a button. The more questions the student answered incorrectly the higher the voltage. The catch to it was that the student was actually not getting shocked, but screamed as if he was to see if the teacher would eventually stop. The voltage started from as low as 15 and went up as high as 450. This experiment, in my personal opinion turned out to have some very impressive results. The results were that 90% of people would actually kill someone if told by an authority figure. 90% of people would actually shock someone with voltage that was said to be able to kill a human being. I

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