How To Evaluate Milgram's Experiment
In 1963, Stanley Milgram from Yale University conducted an experiment focusing about obedience to authority figure verse personal conscience. However, in this research the volunteering subjects thinks it is based on the study of learning and memory. This experiment involves three people, the experimenter, naïve subject, and the victim; the ending result was unpredictable. The experiment had total of forty participant who are men between age twenty to fifty with different backgrounds and occupations. The procedure was to have a person (the subject) to manage electric shock to a victim, however, the victim is associated with the experimenter (Milgram 1963). In this experiment there is a teacher and a learner, to decide who receive which position of the study they will draw out a slip from a hat. Both slip will say ‘teacher’ on it, when being announced the associated victim would claim to be the learner. The teacher will ask questions
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Before this experiment, fourteen Yale Senior predicted that out of 100 people, only 3 will complete the study (Milgram 1963). The ending result astonished Milgram because he thought that the subjects would stop obeying after their personal conscience articulate. Since people learn from a young age what is right or wrong. This clarified that even though the participant didn’t want to continue shocking the learner but proceed because they obeyed the experimenter’s request. In conclusion, this studies shows that people are more likely to be obedience to higher authority than listening to their personal conscience. Half the subject wanted to stop the experiment but continued on their own free well because they feel like they owe something to the experimenter or think they have to complete this study. Nevertheless, more research will clarify why people are submissive than making decision based on their
Before this experiment, fourteen Yale Senior predicted that out of 100 people, only 3 will complete the study (Milgram 1963). The ending result astonished Milgram because he thought that the subjects would stop obeying after their personal conscience articulate. Since people learn from a young age what is right or wrong. This clarified that even though the participant didn’t want to continue shocking the learner but proceed because they obeyed the experimenter’s request. In conclusion, this studies shows that people are more likely to be obedience to higher authority than listening to their personal conscience. Half the subject wanted to stop the experiment but continued on their own free well because they feel like they owe something to the experimenter or think they have to complete this study. Nevertheless, more research will clarify why people are submissive than making decision based on their