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    After watching the video today about the Milgram experiment, I was very displeased. The Milgram experiment is a psychological test to see how far some people will go hurting another person they do not know one bit. The “teachers” that were reading the learners the questions had no idea who the person in the other room was and just shocked them because a man in a white lab coat that looks like they had authority over them told them to. The first person that was the one giving the test understood you

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    Last class we spoke about The Stanley Milgam Experiments, The Stanford Prison Experiments and The Asch Conformity Experiments. We discussed authority and what that does to people in vulnerable or difficult scenarios. This class forced me to question how I’ve been throughout my life during traumatic events and how I’ll act in the future, should these situations arise. In the Milgram experiment there was a 'teacher' assigned and a 'student' assigned. The 'teacher' cannot see their 'student' but

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    greater good of the group. By looking at “The Milgram/Burger Experiment”, “The Stanford Prison Experiment”, “Group Minds” by Lessing and “The Asch Experiment” we can see all four of them display the power of obedience and examples of group influence on an individual. This is important because it helps us determine how obedient a person is and at what point is it considered dangerous. To start it off, “The Milgram Experiment” and “The Burger Experiment” are both practically the same thing. They include

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    Discuss the Milgram Conformity Experiment, include ethical considerations, the strengths and weaknesses of the approach. History and Introduction: The Milgram experiment is probably one of the most well-known experiments of the psy-sciences. (De Vos, J. (2009). Stanley Milgram was a psychologist from Yale University. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient to

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    obedience as guidance and not as a complete absolute, for when people do things without thought people will get hurt. The Milgram experiment is a showcase of what people will do if they do not have to take personal responsibility. Just because someone with all the trappings of authority and power tell us to do something does not mean what we are doing is right. The Milgram experiment showed psychologist that is wrong to subjugate test subjects without prior knowledge or consent. Furthermore, we now know

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    In the Milgram Experiment a group of people were paired up with another person they’ve never met in their entire lives. One of them was going to be the teacher and the other the student. In the experiment the teacher would ask the student a question and if they got it wrong, they would get shock, every time they got a question wrong the bolt of energy of the shock would increase. The experiment consist on seeing if the teacher would keep hurting another person just because a guy in a white lab coat

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    Abstract This paper explores seven peer-reviewed articles that analyze the Milgram Experiment and its results on people’s obedience to authority. The articles range from describing the experiment’s origins to analyzing factors that went into the participant’s compliance such as Strain Resolving Mechanisms (SRMs) and pressure binding factors (BFs), and additionally, finding trends in personality that correlate with levels of obedience. In the first official trial, 65% of participants had agreed to

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    The Milgram experiment is the famous study. Stanley Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be into the atrocities committed by Germans WWII. People should know about the Milgram experiment because it show how to make people obedient, people less obedient and learn people from different cultures. The Milgram experiment show how to make people obedient. People learned about milgram Authority figure who is responsible for the results of action. The Milgram participants were 40 males

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    of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience, writes about how Stanley Milgram's experiments caused emotional disturbances and the ethical issues of it. "The detached, objective manner in which Milgram reports the emotional disturbance suffered by his subjects contrasts sharply with his graphic account of that disturbance" (Baumrind 91). This shows that his subjects sufferedand seemed to be detached. Being opposed to Milgram's experiment, Baumrind explains that his experiments had no "sufficiently

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    Clark 10/25/16 Mrs. Jundt PSY 150 Milgram Experiment The Milgram Experiment is an experiment that tests someone's obedience when they are to directly harm others by another person. It was conducted by Stanley Milgram in 1961 at Yale University to to see if the people who operate Nazi concentration and death camps were just following their own orders. The experiment forced people to continue following someone’s orders even if they were harming someone. This experiment was a test of obedience, whether

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