Kenneth Clark was born on July 24, 1914. He earned a PhD in psychology from Colombia in 1940. Clark designed and tested an experiment known as the “Doll Test”. Children between the ages of five to seven were asked to choose one out four dolls, each of a different race, identify the race of each doll, and chose what color doll they prefer. At the time of the experiment segregation was happening, this play a crucial part in Clarks conclusion at the end of the experiment. He concluded that the self-esteem of African –American Children was negatively affected and a sense of inadequacy was created as a result of segregation. Solomon Asch , a gestalt and social psychologist , was born in September 14, 1907 in Warsaw. He then migrated to the United States in 1920. Asch received a PhD from Colombia , while studying there he was mentored by gestalt psychologist , Wolfgang Kohler. He became famous for the Asch Conformity experiments, which still influences social …show more content…
He received a bachelor’s in political science from Queens College and received a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University. Milgram worked as a research assistant to Solomon Asch and was influence by Ashs’ conformity experiment. In 1961 he began to conduct the obedience experiment. He wondered how far person would go when ordered by an authority figure to hurt another person even if it was against their beliefs. The participant, also known as the “teacher” , had to administer shocks to the “learner” each time the learner was wrong as well as increase the shock voltage. The shock machine had increasing voltages , the third button on the machine labeled as Danger: Severe shock and the last feature three x’s. This lead the teacher to believe that they were administering high voltages of pain when in all actuality the learner was an actor. Milgram concluded that 65% of the participants continued with the experiment until the very