Adriana Umana Psych 356 13 December 2015 Final Exam Much of what we know about human behavior has been known thanks to many psychology theories. Some of these theories have been developed by very well known psychologists such as Carl Rogers, B.F Skinner, Bandura, and Raymond Cattell. Although, some theories have changed over time there are others we still apply today. Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologist. He was non directed, client centered, and person centered.
The immediate community around people is the important reason that people act in the certain ways. Usually, what people being like at society is not what they are actually being like as themselves. From their immediate communities, people gain the impressions society gives to them. Some people may misunderstand themselves through being at the society; some people may become selfish by seeing other people act selfishly. Overall, people are changing when context is changing.
Such as Staples’ anecdotes, however; we ourselves originate personalities for others just as quickly as them. Strangers maneuver the first impression of the individual, give off and vice-versa. Toni Morrison’s “Strangers” also presents a valid point, “The resources available to us for benign access to each other, for vaulting the mere blue air that separates us, are a few but powerful: language, image, and experience, which may involve both, one, or neither of the first two… Provoking language or eclipsing it, an image can determine not only what we know and feel but also what we believe.” (Morrison 78).
Firstly, in order for Milgram’s experiment to work the people had to obey and do what the researchers told them to do. The definition of obedience defined in the book is, “...a compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure. ”(Schaefer, 103) This is exactly what happened in the experiment.
The book Bridges Not Walls: A book about interpersonal communication Stewart identifies how communication shape and define who we are. In this reflective journal entry, I will use the quote “Identities are multidimensional and changing” (Stewart, 2012). Over the course of our life, we grow physically and mentally however some people like to believe the infamous quote “that’s just how I am” when someone is trying to assist them in growing their personal identity. That is a dangerous statement because it is proven that our identities are constantly changing with society.
He saw that the more personal, or close, the real participant had to be to the fake one, while they were being shocked, affected the obedience as well. He also noticed that if there were two other fake participants teaching that refused to shock their learners that the real participant would not comply. Finally, he tested the experimenter telling the real patient to shock the learner by telephone, instead of actually being there in person, reduced obedience as well (McLead). The Milgram experiment and the Nuremburg trials can relate extensively to explain how the Holocaust happened the way it did.
What this theory engages with is the assumption that the engagement of behavior begins after the observation of similar behaviors in others. (Wong,
In the exposure effect experiment conducted by Richard Moreland and Scott Beach, the researchers wanted to know if a continuously exposure of something or someone would make people like it more or less. The purpose of this experiment was to demonstrated how people develop affinity with aspects or characteristics they seem known. In the experiment, four women with similar characteristics (attractiveness and appearance) participated. People who play role and work for the experiment are professionally called “confederates”. The experiment was conducted in a large class room (200 seats approximately); the confederates came to class as students at different times throughout the semester.
In The Help, Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan takes many risks and has to make some very hard decisions that could seriously affect people other than herself. Throughout the story, Hilly Holbrook is extremely rude and difficult to handle. Being put in Skeeter's shoes, I definitely wouldn't have been friends with Hilly for as long as she was. I feel as though Skeeter was guilted into being ¨friends¨ with her because they grew up together.
From the outward appearance of others to their internal
In the novel I’d Tell You I Love you, But Then I’d Have To Kill You, the central character and narrator Cammie Morgan, “The Chameleon”, is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women in Roseville, Virginia, where her mom is the headmistress and Cammie and her friends are trained to be spies, whereas everyone in Roseville thinks the school is just for rich, haughty girls who have no other place to go. Cammie and her friends are sophomores who have to take a class called Covert Operations, taught by Cammie’s late father’s friend Joe Solomon, whom everyone is swooning over; Mr. Solomon teaches them to be real spies, instead of just memorizing facts and knowing 14 languages. Cammie and her friend Bex introduce the famous McHenrys to Gallagher Academy;
First, in “Monkey in the mirror” it showed a chimpanzee that was placed in front of the mirror. At first the chimpanzee was afraid because he didn’t know what was going on, but slowly he gained self-recognition which humans also have this trait. The reason why it similar for both species is because its shows that we are able to recognize ourselves and how we adapt this environment. If we didn’t have self-recognition, then we wouldn’t have the ability to learn about ourselves. Another example is self-recognition is culture because culture identifies who you are and where you came from.
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.
Stanley Milgram wants to know how people would go in obeying an instruction. For his experiment he stand a procedure it is different from others. His experiment taken at human beings. 40 males aged between 20 and 50 were selected for the experiment, These 40 males were professionals who is unskilled. There is a teacher and learner in his experiment.
How do relationships with others show our true personality? The way we communicate with others, views how people see us. In the story “ What of this Goldfish do you wish?” by Etgar Keret’s. Shirley Jackson’s “ The Lottery” and Diane Glancy’s “ Without Title”.
