ipl-logo

Stanley Milgram's Obedience Chapter Summary

503 Words3 Pages

The concept of the article by Burger spoke about Milgram’s obedience study and investigates why people are still capable of obeying to authority even today. In today’s time Stanley Milgram’s obedience studies are one of the most highly recognized psychological researches known. The obedience test consisted of participants and a confederate. In the test an administrator told participants that if the other participant in the next room got a question wrong they had to administer a shock and as the test continued the shock valued increase also. At a certain point some of the participants felt uneasy to continue but were told they had to in order to complete the test. Some completed the test to the highest voltage while some had resistance. In Burger’s replication of the study he did a two-step screening to exclude participants who may have a negative reaction to the …show more content…

Burger went on to explain how he made other changes to his experiment that were less harsh than Milgram’s. In the end Burger found that based on his results they hold similarity to Milgram’s. He found that gender differences had no effect on obedience but personality traits may or may not have had some sort of influence on the participants’ reaction. As far as age goes Burgers experiment had adults from all ages while Milgram’s participants were 50 and younger. As a result, Burger saw that even with his limitations he had he was able to see that there is no subtle change in his results to Milgram’s results. He saw that participants acted the same way today as those who participated in the precious studies. He saw that without a full replication he wasn’t able to get a concrete answer but with what he was able to get he saw that several of the participants had stopped knowing they were able to withdraw at any

Show More
Related
743 Words | 3 Pages

In conclusion, I believe the way Slater presents her evidence is very convincing. She makes it a point to explain all of the controversial points that surround Stanley Milgram and his experiments. While we might not agree on all of her points, we both share the thought that Milgram and his experiments have affected positively despite the issues of its purpose, results, usefulness, and morality shroud the experiments in

Read More
1205 Words | 5 Pages

The author explains that there are many philosophies about obedience but they don’t give much information about the behaviors of subjects in critical or complicated situation. Milgram sets up an experiment at Yale University to see the reaction of a citizen when ordered by the experimenter to hurt other person. The author

Read More
1208 Words | 5 Pages

This concept sparked a curiosity in psychologist Stanley Milgram to discover how authoritative figures influence a person's decision making---which soon led him to conduct his most famous experiments known today. After watching Nazi generals, one after the other, plead they were only following orders during the Nuremberg trials he took away one main concept; people can, and will blindly follow authority. To test this idea,

Read More
494 Words | 2 Pages

According to lines 85 and 95, only six people were tested on and two out of the six people tested did not count because there was an error made while experimenting. Only four people were used to prove his point that is not enough for he's beliefs to become a common, Predictable and provable result. This is poor science because the sample size is too small, maybe these results are specific to only these four people and you would get different results if you tested it on

Read More
248 Words | 1 Pages

The Battle of Little Bighorn was a battle which was a part of the Great Sioux War. This armed engagement was between the combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Regiment of the U.S. Cavalry. The battle took place across the Little Bighorn River, hence the battle's name. The Lakota agreed to stay in specific boundaries in the western part of current day South Dakota, but tension rose when the U.S. sent George Armstrong Custer to make an exploration of the Black Hills. Custer found gold in the area, which triggered many to violate the treaty in 1868.

Read More
426 Words | 2 Pages

In which he found that test retest reliability after 48 days wad lower than desirable. This is this is

Read More
992 Words | 4 Pages

His experiment was used to demonstrate how people respond to orders from people with authority no matter what the order was. He started by having participants test another “participant”, who actually was one of Milgram’s men who knew what was going on. Each time the fake participant chose the wrong answer, the real participant had to shock them with a higher voltage until they got to one that would be deadly. Milgram changed parts of the experiment to find variables that changed how far the real participant would go. He noticed that location and experimenter’s dress apparel changes how likely it is that the real participant would go to the deadly voltage.

Read More
1976 Words | 8 Pages

Milgram’s experiment displays how much was situated in a time and how his life affected his choices, and his experiments have gained notoriety. The discursive approach to attitudes builds on a criticism of key assumptions and methods of the cognitive social approach and highlights the limitations of the experimental method for developing a comprehensive understanding of a phenomenon such as obedience. Through Gibson’s rhetorical analysis he highlighted the importance of the interaction between participant and experimenter which suggests that the standard view on experiments could do with revising. The experimental setting although it is great in most cases it can create a hostile environment with individuals acting out of character and therefore not creating the best results. Gibson has highlighted that the nervous anxious participants that were portrayed in the original papers were in fact passive and argumentative and that’s just by looking at it differently and examining different things such as the language people use to be persuasive.

Read More
371 Words | 2 Pages

The Milgram experiment and the society Speaking of one of the most renowned psychological experiment, which even replications on TV are done, is the Milgram experiment, on obedience to authority figures. It involves the measurement of how much participants will to obey the authority, in order to explain the reason why soldiers obeyed to allow the Holocaust, the homicides of millions of Jews, happened. With the participants’ roles as a teacher to punish a learner by incrementing degrees of electric shocks, though they didn’t know it’s staged, 65% of them did it to the last under the horrendous moans and the commands of the experimenters, which surpassed the expectation of 1.2%. Milgram himself elaborated two theories, encompassing theory of

Read More
610 Words | 3 Pages

Milgram's experiment is about how people have blind obedience to authority it also called a shock experiment. His Experiment was created to explain some of the concentration camp horrors of the World War 2, where Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Slavs and other enemies of the state were slaughtered by Nazis. In the holocaust, jews people were tortured because Hitler told their people to torture Jewish people, so people were following this world blindly without knowing why they are doing that. Many people claim that they were just following the orders, and could not hold to be responsible for their action.

Read More
678 Words | 3 Pages

Professor Jern PSYC 220 1/23/23 Obedience Essay Since a young age, we are taught to obey and do what we’re told. But just how far will our natural instinct to obey take us? Many psychologists have asked the same question. Two of the more well-known studies in this area were conducted by Psychologist Stanley Milgram, with the Milgram Obedience Studies, and Professor Philip G. Zimbardo, with the Stanford Prison Study.

Read More
950 Words | 4 Pages

(Russell 2014) Conclusion: Despite controversy Milgram’s experiment was ground breaking. It remains relevant today and is frequently cited in demonstrating the perils of obedience.

Read More
552 Words | 3 Pages

People are very impressionable and will do whatever they are told if put in the right situation. Meyers also talk about how he worries about himself and his readers. He worries that if put in a similar situation that he would not know what he would do. I find myself in the same predicament. No one can know what they would do, but Milgram’s experiment, makes me lean towards the possibility that I would be more obedient than I would like to

Read More
981 Words | 4 Pages

The Milgram experiment was conducted to analyze obedience to authority figures. The experiment was conducted on men from varying ages and varying levels of education. The participants were told that they would be teaching other participants to memorize a pair of words. They believed that this was an experiment that was being conducted to measure the effect that punishment has on learning, because of this they were told they had to electric shock the learner every time that they answered a question wrong. The experiment then sought out to measure with what willingness the participants obeyed the authority figure, even when they were instructed to commit actions which they seemed uncomfortable with.

Read More
928 Words | 4 Pages

Name : Muhammed Irshad Madonna ID : 250509 Subject : Medical Ethics Due Date : 8/01/2018 Paper : 1-The Milgram Experiment The Stanley Milgram Experiment is a famous study about obedience in psychology which has been carried out by a Psychologist at the Yale University named, Stanley Milgram. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. In July 1961 the experiment was started for researching that how long a person can harm another person by obeying an instructor.

Read More

More about Stanley Milgram's Obedience Chapter Summary

Related Topics

Open Document