Milgram Experiment

The Milgram Experiment conducted at Yale University in 1963, focused on whether a person would follow instructions from someone showing authority. Students (actors) were asked questions by the teachers (participants), if the students got the answer wrong they would receive a shock each higher than the previous. The shocks ranged from Slight shock (15v) to Danger! (300v) to XXX (450v). Stanley Milgram wanted to know if people would do things just because someone with authority told them to, even if it was hurting someone. I believe that the experiment was a good way to test the obedience of people

The Roles of Social Powers In the article, “The Milgram Experiment” by Saul McLeod, he suggests that testing subjects given immoral demands from an authority figure can cause them to be more obedient, even if it is wrong. In the article titled “The Power of Situations” by Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett, they can be seen to agree with situational behavior in the Mcleod Study, but go about it in a different way than Mcleod explains in his article. Ross & Nisbett present multiple studies that have found that a certain situation can alter how one dictates their conscience, making their behavior different. While McLeod and Ross & Nisbett both discuss the influence of situational factors on human behavior, Ross & Nisbett provide a much broader approach

People can change in a position of power from being normal to crazed. In the milgram experiment uses students from yale university were used to show a relation between position of power and being evil, the experiment showed that there was a relation. Saul Mcleod conveys through the article "THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT" that people put in positions of power, are more likely to be cruel to the people they are in power of. The other experiment the stanford experiment was to see how many people would kill another person when instructed to someone of a higher stature. The article by Saul Mcleod shows how people are suseptable of murdering someone when another person is to blame. Both articles show that positions of power can make people do insane

Stanley Milgram writes about his shocking experiment in “Perils of Obedience.” Milgram writes on the behaviors that the people had during the experiment. Milgram had an experiment that involves two people. One person was a student and the other a teacher. The student was strapped into an electric chair and was required to answer certain questions. The teacher asked a certain word, and the student must know the pair that goes with it. If the student answered the question incorrectly, the teacher must shock the student. Each time the student answered a question incorrectly, the volts increase. Milgram was expecting the teachers to back out of the experiment once they saw the student in pain for the first time, but surprisingly enough, more than sixty percent of the teachers obeyed the experimenter and continued on with the experiment, reaching up to four-hundred-fifty volts. After three times of the four-hundred-fifty volt shock, the experiment was called to halt.

Milgram (1963) conducted a study on obedience which investigated the extent people would obey to commands that involved harming individuals. There were 40 male participants from New Haven and the surrounding communities that partook in this study of learning and memory, at Yale University, by responding to a newspaper advert. The age range was between 20 and 50; and the participants’ occupation was diverse, ranging from unskilled to professional. Participants were paid $4.50 for entering the laboratory.

The Milgram experiment was performed by the sociologist Stanley Milgram to discover the power of authority. In this experiment, Stanley was trying to demonstrate the willingness people have to follow orders from an authority figure. Even thought the results of this experiment were very surprising, I think that this kind of experiments would allows us to study and understand better the human’s nature. This experiment showed a side of human’s nature that was unknown by the scientistic community, and this is the reason why we need to perform more experiment like this one.

This specific experiment was necessary. As Lead in of a group of researchers who put together a plan to see it through of course I would've gotten it done. All circumstances would have had to happen just the way it played out for me to end the experiment. Not knowing how it could psychologically destroy the prisoners is what was the downfall of this experiment. Not having the guards initially abide by all rules, regulations and policies led to its termination.

Stanley Milgram conducted one of the most controversial psychological experiments of all time: the Milgram Experiment. Milgram was born in a New York hospital to parents that immigrated from Germany. The Holocaust sparked his interest for most of his young life because as he stated, he should have been born into a “German-speaking Jewish community” and “died in a gas chamber.” Milgram soon realized that the only way the “inhumane policies” of the Holocaust could occur, was if a large amount of people “obeyed orders” (Romm, 2015). This influenced the hypothesis of the experiment. How much pain would someone be willing to inflict on another just because an authority figure urged them to do so? The experiment involved a teacher who would ask questions to a concealed learner and a shock system. If the learner answered incorrectly, he would receive a shock. Milgram conducted the experiment many times over the course of 2 years, but the most well-known trial included 65% of participants who were willing to continue until they reached the fatal shock of 450 volts (Romm, 2015). The results of his experiment were so shocking that many people called Milgram’s experiment “unethical.”

Milgram (1963) was possessed with inquisitive about how far people would run in agreeing to a course in case it included harming another person. Stanley Milgram was enthused about how adequately regular people could be influenced into submitting anathemas for example, Germans in WWII. The method of consistence to master while fundamental administration is a most adversarial and disturbing example that has surrounded bit of mental examinations. One such examination which has been done in different assortments over the world is: Milligram attempt, which focuses on a champion among the most fundamental mental slants find in human be The celebrated Milligram cerebrum science tests, finished in the 1960s, anticipated that

Discuss the Milgram Conformity Experiment, include ethical considerations, the strengths and weaknesses of the approach.

Stanley Milgram, a famous social psychologist, and student of Solomon Asch, conducted a controversial experiment in 1961, investigating obedience to authority (1974). The experiment was held to see if a subject would do something an authority figure tells them, even if it conflicts with their personal beliefs and morals. He even once said, "The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act (Cherry).” This essay will go over what Milgram’s intent was in this experiment and what it really did for society.

As a result all subjects were debriefed at the end of the experiment to explain goal and hypothesis being tested. Milgram later surveyed the participants and found that 84% were glad to have participated, while only 1% regretted their involvement. Milgram went on to conduct more than twenty different variations of the same obedience experiment. Among the findings, the amount of shock given declined: 1.with decreasing distance between the subject and learner; 2.with increasing distance between experimenter and subject; 3.when the subject saw two other “subjects” defying the experimenter; 4.when the subject could choose the amount of shock to give in response to the learner’s mistakes; 5.when the experimenter called a halt to the proceedings, even though the learner insisted that they

Another famous Psychological study where the scientific method is present is a study conducted by Stanley Milgram. According to Milgram (1963) it was a “study of destructive obedience in which ordering of a test subject to administer more severe punishment to a victim in the context of a learning experiment” (p.371). Subjects of the experiment were 40 males between the ages of 20 and 50, and through the study they were instructed to apply electrical shocks to a victim, an accomplice of the experiment, ranging from 15-450 volts (Milgram, 1963, p.373). The study was meant to examine how long the subjects were willing to follow instructions from a superior even though they were aware of the harm they were causing the victim. Just as Asch’s experiment

After reading Social Psychology as a Science I learned the challenges that social psychologist faced when conducting experiments or laboratory experiments. I also agree with the author when he stated that the Milgram experiment is an extremely important experiment because it taught us about the human behavior. The Milgram experiment demonstrated a realistic way in how people would have reacted in real life if the situation was presented. In psychology and in real life situations I have learned that people are more likely to listen to authority and be obedient towards authority because in some way they might feel obligated to collaborate. I also believe that the Milgram’s experiment is an important factor to social psychology because it demonstrated

The Milgram experiment was conducted in 1963 by Stanley Milgram in order to focus on the conflict between obedience to authority and to personal conscience. The experiment consisted of 40 males, aged between 20 and 50, and who’s jobs ranged from unskilled to professional. The roles of this experiment included a learner, teacher, and researcher. The participant was deemed the teacher and was in the same room as the researcher. The learner, who was also a paid actor, was put into the next room and strapped into an electric chair. The teacher administered a test to the learner, and for each question that was incorrect, the learner was to receive an electric shock by the teacher, increasing the level of shock each time. The shock generator ranged from