The Milgram experiment is an experiment which test the way people do terrible things because of orders they are given. The experiment consists of filming two people, one asks questions, the other is being asked a series of memory questions. The person who is asking the series of memory questions thinks he is being told what questions to ask by a “scientist”, the scientist is actually just an actor. The people are hooked up to a voltage machine that can give off anywhere to no voltage to the legal amount of voltage a human can be given. The “scientist” is instructed to increase the voltage each time the person gets a memory question wrong. The point of this test is to see if the “scientist” will actually shock people with a lethally high amount …show more content…
They listened to the orders he was giving them physically harming or killing someone and didn’t even second guess it. It amazes me how one person cans it there and hear the struggle of another person that is being cause by them!!!! And then continue to do such a thing because they are being told to by someone who has “power” over them. That just amazes me and makes me think our minds are so corrupt. The Bystander effect is showing a scene of pickpocketing where all people involved are actors except for the one man who is a bystander. The actors follow through with the pickpocketing scene attempting to get the bystander to notice, although he obviously sees what is going on he does not say anything to the woman being pickpocketed or try to stop the man doing so, he looks around noticing that nobody else is doing anything so he literally acts as if nothing happened just like everyone else because he is so affected by everyone else and the things they do. They also do an experiment with an actor dressed up in a homeless way, who is obviously drunk and sickly looking, he lays on the pavement and nobody says anything to him, they then dress him up as a well put together human and