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Milgrims experiment

3/26/14

In milgrims experiment was to measure the desire of the participants to shock a learner in a controlled situation. He based the experiment in three primary roles. One was the authoritative figure, which shocked the teachers every time they got an answer wrong. This was a form of punishment that was believed to conflict with personal morals and the main reason for the experiment was to evaluate the teacher's response to handling this type of punishment. The other two primary roles were the learner, and the teachers.

In each experiment he selected forty men who had no prior knowledge of the experiment. . Milgram was persistent in having a balanced age range of males for his experiment and had a variety of different occupations. He went out to get some teachers, who would be the knowing subjects in the experiment.

The teacher had to administrate a list of paired associates to the learner, then test him on the list and if there were any errors, he was punished. Milgrim put a twit to it. The learner was an actor, and he was there to test the teacher, as the teacher though he was shocking the learner. She really wasn't. Why did Milgrim do this? He conducted this experiment to measure the level of discomfort and moral dilemma the teacher felt as he increased the electric shocks.

A source of evil is as evil as a result of transformation. System of authority plays a great part in this transformation. Submission to authority, sometimes overrides the essence if obedience.

The various experiment conducted at Yale at Yale University, Howard University, and at the Graduate center, University of New York indicate that obedience is a basic element in the structure of social life. Numerous painful shock experiment of high voltage conduced on a human beings. On instructions

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