Obtaining informed consent from participants who are children or have learning difficulties may be difficult. Lying to participants about the nature of the experiment, as Milgram (1974) did in his studies of obedience to authority, is considered morally wrong. Therein lies another issue, as if people know they are being studied/know the nature of the experiment, the Hawthorne effect may occur, where the participants behaviour is unnatural. This would not produce valid results, therefor ruining the experiment. However, the laboratory experiment is highly reliable, as it is easily repeatable and a detached method.
aBNOR Abnormal Psychology University of Phoenix PSY/410 January 31,2010 Abnormal Psychology 1 Abnormal Psychology People have always suffered from abnormal personalities, though they weren’t always understood as such. Most people thought them to be the work of demons, ghosts or evil spirits. The traces of abnormality were removed by use of trepanation. Trepanation is a procedure in which the physician makes a hole in the skull by way of drilling, and this is said to increase the functionality of the brain which in turn is supposed to increase over all well being. This method was used to treat the mental illnesses as well as seizures, and anything thought to be caused by the brain being unbalanced.
However in spite of all that he ended up inventing the atomic bomb considered by many to be one of the greatest inventions of all time. Then there’s George Washington was unable to spell for much of his early life and had very poor grammar usage however he became the first president of the United States. Newton was little heard of by much of anyone and was thought to be mentally unstable at times and even insane. Newton then came up with his laws of gravity, which became the founding principles of mechanics. After stating that the Earth was not the center of the universe but instead was the sun, Galileo was threatened with excommunication if he did not take back the idea.
Animal testing is wrong, and knowing this it should be stopped. Animals are still enduring the torture of experiments for cosmetic research. Some people know that there are organic, healthy, and non-animal testing methods you can use to get the same results. For starters, the testing process for animals is cruel and unusual punishment. They will test the value of new shampoo products by using rabbits as their tests subjects usually.
He records his research and as of a result the data that he collected didn’t make any sense. For years he didn’t know what went wrong with the experiment conducted. Out of nowhere the answer came to him, they were looking for the wrong Pepsi but what they should have been looking for is the perfect Pepsi’s. He would go and set up a meeting with Pepsi, then tell them what his revelation was. These people would quickly dismiss him because of how crazy it sounds.
The experiment caused some of the participants to sweat, tremble, and stutter and in some cases seizures. Some people argue that this has ethical problems because they were not told this could have happened to them, and they felt as though that had to carry on because they were being pressured into carrying on by a scientist who had authority, even though they could have stopped. Therefore Milgram's study highlighted that 65% would administer shocks of 450 volts, as they were willing to obey orders to inflict
Recreational drug use has increased over the years as more drugs are created and distributed. These drugs can be habit forming and can cause severe damage if abused, and may result in loss of life or bodily functions if used in large quantities over time. The side effects of these substances range from gastrointestinal problems to psychological and muscular damage as well as damage to the vital organs (Femail 1). Although some states allow some recreational drug use, the masses do not believe in the use of recreational drugs and society frowns upon users. Drugs used in a way that is not medicinal can be deadly and have shown to be too large a temptation globally, and have been the source of many historic events.
Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the popular question at that particular time: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices? "[3] The experiments have been repeated many times in the following years with consistent results within differing societies, although not with the same percentages around the globe. [4] The experiments were also controversial and considered by some scientists to be unethical and physically or psychologically abusive. Psychologist Diana Baumrind considered the experiment "harmful because it may cause permanent psychological damage and cause people to be less trusting in the future.
Mental Illness is often a difficult subject to talk about. It has become something that individuals prefer to avoid. The stigma of mental illness is an unnecessary barrier to those dealing with psychological disorders. Negative stereotypes of individuals with mental illness have a long history in Hollywood. There have been many inaccurate portrayals that has had a lasting effect on the perception of people with mental disorders.
1. The repressed memory concept is also known as false memory syndrome. False memory syndrome is caused by memories of a traumatic experience most often they are associated with memories of childhood sexual abuse. Many of these types of memories are objectively false, but in which the person believes the memories are true. Because sexual abuse is such a disturbing incident, false accusations of sexual abuse have huge, if not shocking, consequences for families.