Hofling hospital experiment

of the teachers continued to at least 300 volts. Milgram did this experiment in 18 different ways and altered the independent variables in each trail to see how it affects the outcome or dependent variable. Milgram’s experiment was directly influenced by World war 2 and the holocaust, and while Milgram wanted to test how far people would go in obeying instructions even at the risk of hurting someone. Following Milgram’s experiment he came up with two types of theories, one being the autonomous state

carried out by Hofling et al. This essay will compare these studies by firstly discussing the difference in how the studies relate to what happens in real life. It will then move onto the parallels of their findings before finishing on the differences of their conclusions. The similarities and differences between these studies merit show how the studies have contributed to the discussion on obedience and they merit thorough investigation. One notable

Experiments which are conducted in a laboratory are preferable to researchers that desire utmost control within the experimental environment. However, there is a tradeoff that comes along with laboratory experiments, in that these types of experiments typically are not generalizable. It is assumed that almost all individuals have not grown up in a laboratory. Therefore, people possessing typical childhoods can understand that observations in the natural world are not subject to a doctrine of experimental

working at the hospital referring to the scenario below using the knowledge of social influence, exploring Popular social influence studies such as Asch, Crutchfield, Sherif, Hofling, Zimbardo and also critically suggesting and reflecting on guidance or recommendations to the Hospital Board of Governors on how to improve the situation. 1.0 The Scenario You are an occupational psychologist who has been asked to improve staff productivity and compliance to legislation in a hospital setting. At this

There are little facts about the role of obedience up until now. Psychologists have been debating on factors that constitute obedience within an individual. For example, certain theories suggest that people do horrible actions only if they are ordered to do so. Research has shown that most people obey all orders given to them by the authority-figure. The idea for this topic came to me while flipping through channels. I came across a show called 20/20, on the Investigation Discovery Channel. The show

Comparison of Obedience Studies Conducted by Milgram (1963) and Hofling et al. (1966) Throughout this essay, I will be looking at and comparing two sociopsychological studies on obedience, specifically, the similarities and differences between them. The studies that I will be looking at were conducted by Milgram (1963) and Hofling et al. (1966) and were conducted in both laboratory and real-life settings. The aim of the research in these studies was to determine whether or not an instruction or request

$4.50 for the hour they were in the experiment. When they arrived at Yale University they were introduced to two people one of which was ‘Jack Williams’ who was wearing a grey laboratory coat and was to be the experimenter, the other person was a mild man in his fifties called Mr Wallace who was meant to be another volunteer but in fact were both actors. Then the volunteer was lead into a room where Mr

patients had been admitted (Including Rosenhan himself), they had stopped simulating any symptoms of sanity by performing all direct instructs from the hospital staff, however, they did not take the medication given and told staff that their symptoms had gone. Rosenhan had set two tasks for the pseudo-patients, to seek release by convincing the hospital that they are sane and to observe and record the experience. The end results had found that all pseudo patients but one gained a diagnosis of schizophrenia

Part I: Research paper topic and outline Obedience to Authority Abbygale Javier [IT 150G, 14111; On-line; Elizabeth Rasnick; September 29, 2016] I. Introduction A. Motivation of this research There are little facts about the role of obedience up until now. Psychologists have been debating on factors that constitute obedience within an individual. For example, certain theories suggest that people do horrible actions only if they are ordered to do so. Research has shown that most people obey all

student nurses for working on hospital wards Contribute to the understanding of some of the challenges nurses may face in their working practices Background Stanley Milgram, a psychologist from Yale University, conducted a series of experiments on obedience to explain some of the concentration camp horrors perpetrated during World War II. He tested the subjects' willingness to cause pain to another person if instructed to by an authority figure. In his experiment, a group of participants were