Others did not feel that they even had the choice to stop, when in reality there were no incentives and neither were they threatened to stay. Some tried to explain these reactions by saying that all people have violent and aggressive desires. But, this theory was proved wrong by simply allowing the teacher to choose the voltage of the shock to the learner. Thirty-eight out of forty stopped at the first sign of pain. Milgram discusses this experiment and explains these results as, “Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs…” (113).
Jonah Lehrer, the author of “The Neuroscience of Screwing Up”, is referring to the subjectivity of the students in regards to the science experiment. The students didn’t even watch the video and yet they have already formed their own opinions (lehrer, 2010). Their beliefs blinded their conclusions. They saw only what they wanted to see. It is obvious that the physics students were very subjective in their thinking; their preconceptions inhibit how they see the experiment and data being presented (lehrer, 2010).
The last symptom of groupthink in this case study happened when the all members of the group decide to turn in the assignment despite their earlier feelings and attitudes. The outcome is that the group gets a C- instead of the A they thought they would be getting because their group “leader” laughed off the concern of a new group member. The fact the two new members did not voice their opinion earlier due to groupthink may have cost the group a better grade. 2. The specific examples in this case study that exemplify these symptoms are how that Tom, Susie, and Richard all formed a plan without the consideration or input from the two new members of the group – Mark and Betty.
PART 1 The table shows predictions and results from Milgram’s original obedience to authority study and results from two variations of the study. Both the psychiatrists and the college students predicted that 0% of the ‘teachers’ would administer electric shocks to the ‘learners’ at maximum voltage. However, the psychiatrists predicted that the ‘teachers’ would refuse to continue administering shocks at a lower average level (123V) than the students predicted (140V). The predictions made were inaccurate, as the average level of shock at which the ‘teachers’ actually refused to continue was 368V and 65% used maximum voltage. In Variation One of the experiment, the results of the average level of shock at which the ‘teachers’ refused to continue (244V) and the percentage of ‘teachers’ who used maximum voltage (20%) were lower than the results of the Original Study.
Victor Hassine &Ronald Cotton The question of whether Victor Hassine was arrogant (putting himself on a pedestal) was raised in our class discussion. I do not think he put himself on a pedestal. I feel that Victor’s reaction to being incarcerated was quite normal. As Alyssa said in class “It’s a natural response to be confused. He had never been in prison and that’s how people would react if they have never been to prison.” Additionally, as Karissa pointed out, how would he be putting himself on a pedestal if he brought awareness to all of his mistakes in the book?
The Perils of Obedience Review the structure of social life as one can point to These experiments started three months after the trial of the Nazi war criminals in WWII. Milgram also tells us that “authority is ancient as old as the story of Abraham” (White, Billings. Pg.691). He wants us to look deep inside of ourselves and wants us to see how we obey the commands we do, against our better judgment. Stanley Milgram a Yale University psychologist, who does a series of social psychology experiments to measure willingness, and study how participants obey under pressure.
Wente says that students didn’t get this way themselves that it comes from parents who never let their children fail or taught them that hard work pays off instead of cutting corners. In my opinion, I agree fully with Wente’s column that this generation is entitled, but I don’t believe it has much to do with the students but rather their parents. I think most students are a product of hyper parents (as I was), which refers to parents (largely
No one in the Lacks family had been informed of the existence of their mother's cells until a researcher called in the early 1970s wanting to test the family. With this news, the family felt confused and scared. One of the family members described feeling to be the same as being raped, where they did it and nobody told them. The reporter even interprets that the “devil” in this whole study was Johns Hopkins University. One interviewee, Dr. Daniel Ford, states that, "Johns Hopkins needs to do a better job of communicating with the family and of recognizing it" but he also states that using Henrietta's genes was a standard practice at the time.
We as individual's should be trusted to make our own decisions for ourselves as long as those decisions do not interject on anyone else's rights. This entire philosophy of self ownership, is based on self responsibility and the idea that we as human beings have the capacity and ability to thrive and prosper without the guiding hand of “Big Brother”, and that we are adults, free adults. Society would become a freer place if this philosophy was
They are districted by everything else (digital media). “They have done themselves a disservice by drinking the Kool-Aid and believing that a multitasking learning environment will serve their best purposes,” MIT Professor Sherry Turkle said. You should only think about one thing in class. The students believe they can multitask. So far no one has measured it, but at Stanford they are studying it.