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    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

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    Among the top most famous and shocking psychology experiments are the Milgram Obedience Experiment, The Asch Conformity Experiment and The Standfort Prison Experiment of Zimbardo. Those experiments helped us change the waye think about the human mind and behavior. The Milgram Obedience Experiment Near the 1960 Yale University psychologist Stanley Miligram began what would become one of social psychology’s most famous experiments. Milgram began his work during the widely publicized trial of the

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    Huennerkopf Mrs. Gumina English III 3 March 2015 Milgram Experiment What would you do if your boss asked you to do something that inflicts pain on another human? Would you still do it? Keep in mind, if you did not comply you would be fired. This concept was studied by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. He composed an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Stanley Milgram conducted this experiment because of his curiosity with World War

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    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

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    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

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    Nicolas LoMurro 8/21/14 Period 1 Milgram, Stanley: Behavioral Study of Obedience Methodology: The experiment was conducted in 1963 in order to study obedience and how obedience may be a deep-rooted behavior that can override a person’s ethics and moral conduct when faced with legitimate authority. The experiment starts off by selecting 40 males between the ages of 20 and 50 from various educational and occupational backgrounds, from New Haven, Connecticut, and surrounding areas. The 40 males selected

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    operationalize as the labeling and describing of the variables of interest. In Milgram’s experiment, obedience was his variable of interest. Milgram’s research described obedience as a form of compliance that occurs when people follow direct commands, usually from someone in a position of authority (September 8,2016). This definition of obedience was used by Milgram to conduct his experiment. Milgram operationalized his experiment by making it seem like the teachers had to shock the learners no matter how uncomfortable

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    they both use example to prove this argument; one example would be the Milgram experiment; which involved a subject who would get shocked every time they got the answer wrong and the voltage of the shock would increase as the experiment progressed, and the teacher

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    The Milgram Experiment

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    The Milgram experiment was an experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in 1963. The goal of the experiment was to see the relationship between obedience to authority and a person’s own conscience. According to Saul McLeod, Milgram “was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person”. 40 males participated in the experiment with all of them being a teacher since the learner was always planned to be a man named Mr. Wallace. The learner

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    Milgram found in his experiments that obedience to authority decreased when the subject felt like he was apart of the team. In experiment seventeen, Milgram created the same experiment where a subject inflicted shocks on an innocent human being, except in this experiment, there were two other peers involved. They were also “subjects” in this experiment and were told to defy the experiment at different points throughout the experiment. Milgram wanted to take a look at the reaction of the main subject

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