The Stanley Milgram Experiment
The Stanley Milgram experiment takes normal everyday people and gives them orders to do horrible things. The test is to see if someone would do an awful act just on the basis of someone telling them to.
This experiment speaks to the 'nature of responsibility' and to see if the subject will stop the experiment due to its dangerous nature. The subject is tricked into thinking they are the teacher, and the other person in the room, an actor, is the learner. The teacher will ask the learner a series of questions where if he answers incorrectly, he will receive an electric shock which increases in volume with every incorrect answer. The voltage of the shock can reach a magnitude of 450 volts, a lethal amount. What the subject does not know is that
This experiment speaks to the 'nature of responsibility' and to see if the subject will stop the experiment due to its dangerous nature. The subject is tricked into thinking they are the teacher, and the other person in the room, an actor, is the learner. The teacher will ask the learner a series of questions where if he answers incorrectly, he will receive an electric shock which increases in volume with every incorrect answer. The voltage of the shock can reach a magnitude of 450 volts, a lethal amount. What the subject does not know is that