However, through tactical surprise and the decisive leadership of the Admirals and pilots of the Carrier Strike Force, the United States Navy was able to inflict grave damage to the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. As Craig Symonds conveys in his
This is how groupthink is displayed because as said in the text, it was impossible to not join in. The way people were supposed to act was already somehow planned into their brains. They weren’t
The Japanese people lost approximately four carriers 4,800 men a cruiser, and hundreds of aircraft, while the US lost approximately one carrier 307 men and
The Japanese sunk five of our eight battleships, all three of our destroyer ships, destroyed 200 of our aircrafts, and killed 2,400 of our brave American Troops. On the other side of things, the Japanese suffered little damage, “Japan’s losses were some 30 planes, five midget submarines, and fewer than 100 men” (“Pearl”). This quote proves how one-sided this attack was. Fortunately for the U.S, we were able to revive the USS Oklahoma, USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Maryland, USS Pennsylvania, USS Tennessee and USS Nevada, but these ships still sustained significant damage. Finally, it is clearly evident that Japan’s plan to destroy America's pacific fleet was successful, due to the damage that it did to our ships and
However six of the eight battleships were later returned to service and partook in combat operations in World War Two. Japan destroyed 188 US aircraft; most were setting on the ground lined up to protect them from sabotage. (Americans killed 2,403 and 1,178 wounded.).Yet the attack was not a complete success. Aircraft carriers were out at sea.
“In the Pacific on June 4-7, 1942 a four day battle fought between aircrafts based on giant aircraft carriers, the U.S. annihilated hundreds of Japanese planes and regained control of the pacific. The Japanese continued to fight, however, even after the war in Europe came to an end.” This was important because it showed the power of technology. “The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japanʼs naval strength when the Americans eradicated four of its aircraft carriers. Japanʼs navy never reawakened from its pummel at Midway and it was safeguarding after this battle.”
Ericsson also states that groupthink would accompany by other lies such as omission and ignoring the plain facts, ect. Ericsson uses the Pearl Harbor as an example of the groupthink to addresses the impact or the consequences as a result of it. Out-and-Out Lies is nothing but all lie. A lie that the author is trying to make sense of it, because the person is being lying to is holding the truth.
In many cases, people will set aside their own personal credence or adopt the opinions of the rest of the group. Groupthink occurs when the pressures are high to conform within an organization interferes with the group 's’ analysis to reach a decision limiting independent thinking. There are eight symptoms of Groupthink that include the following, illusion of invulnerability, rationalization, brief in inherent morality, out-group stereotypes, self-censorship, illusion of unanimity, direct pressure on dissenters, and self-appointed mindguards . A historical example of Groupthink is the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster.
The only real way to combat the negative effects of groupthink is to cast aside your surrounding society’s norms of what is ‘good’ and ‘bad’, and to take a personal stance against that society no matter what the cost may be. The Salem Witch Trials as represented in The Crucible by Arthur Miller are a perfect, if slightly extreme, example of what herd mentality can lead to if left long enough to fester and grow. John Proctor is the character who takes a stand against his surrounding society, losing his life in the process but also breaking the thrall of groupthink for the town of Salem, effectively setting them free from the Witch Trials. There are two main types of people affected by groupthink: those who unconsciously go with the crowd and are unaware, and those who are simply too scared to speak up.
Furthermore, Japan had a lot of destroyed planes and ships. Japan had 188 destroyed planes and 8 damaged or destroyed battleships. Later on two of the battleships were later raised. “More than two years into the conflict America had finally joined the war. Japan killed 2,500 military Americans.
The concept of groupthink severely influences the jury to a deadly conclusion—guilty of capital murder. However, when the eighth juror proposes an alternative idea - the mere possibility of innocence, cooperative argumentation steers the group to a rational decision (Fonda & Lumet). When a group forgoes the acts of analysis and evaluation in order to ensure the harmony and consistency of a group, the phenomenon of groupthink
It is a natural human instinct to want to be acknowledge by your peers, yet it is also important to be a critical thinker. Irving Janis in 1972 created the term groupthink. He believed groupthink occurs inside a group of similar people that want to keep from being different, resulting in incoherent decision-making. The 1957 film "12 Angry Men," uses groupthink, which influenced the verdict vote in the case of a teenager accused of murdering his father. The purpose of this essay is to examine groupthink and to represent Dr. Irving Janis’ symptoms of groupthink in the film.
And the aircraft carrier was the most dominant ship in the seas. By not sinking those ships the Japanese actually left the large fleet
Group think According to Janis, who coined the term; groupthink “occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment” (1972, p. 9) further group think often leads to a decrease in the mental efficacy perception of reality and moral judgement, as personages find themselves in a group system that seeks high cohesion and unanimity which delimits the motivation of the individual to realistically appraise alternate courses of action (Janis, 1972). A common trait of a collective experiencing this phenomenon, is an inclination to take irrational decision making in addition to members of the group being similar in background and further being insulated from external insight. Comparably the singularity of groupthink is present in the film 12 Angry Men, and appears anecdotally, early on the film, present in the expected unanimous vote of ‘guilty,’ that will send the defendant to the electric chair. Invulnerability Literature surrounding the concept of group think is greatly rooted in the writings of Janis.
One Example of groupthink I read about is the "escalation of the Vietnam War”, 1. Summarize what happened (explain the event in your own words). In August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that North Vietnamese forces had fired them upon.
