The Bias of Milgram and Zimbardo Most scientists would tell you that in a controversial scientific investigation such as Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience” or Philip G. Zimbardo’s “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” it is highly important to avoid bias. Bias, or an opinion, has a great effect on how an experiment is comprehended and can affect whether or not the data gathered can be taken seriously. Hundreds of thousands of studies before it have been condemned because of the lack of objectivity…
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The element film Machuca was co-composed and coordinated by Andres Wood. Discharged in 2004, the film is set prior and then afterward the 1973 Chilean military upset. Wood shuns recorded proof for a sensational delineation centered by the social elements of an upper-white collar class family. The film is generally a transitioning story. The story is essentially told from the viewpoint of a young man, Gonzalo Infant, a favored youth going to a tuition based school in Chile. The film starts as the…
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Organizational Behaviour, 11th ed., McGraw Hill, New York pp. 345-373 And then the following week Solomon Asch (1955) Opinions and Social Pressure, Scientific American, Nov 1955, pp. 31-35 • Session 8 normal Wed 11th Sept 1:30 – 4:30 Milgram, Stanley (1963) Behavioral Study of Obedience, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67 (4): pp. 371-378 Betts R K, Mahnken T (2003) Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel , Routledge USA Tversky, A & Kahneman…
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A large factor in these ideas was the use of Tasks Forces ( Einzatsgruppen) and Police detachments behind the Army Front in clearing out and containing the Jewish populations in Ghettos or simply to eliminate them. Everyone nowadays has a vague analysis and understanding of the Holocaust. The views about the killers are various. Psychologists and sociologist with the help of some famous historians studied the behaviors of the killers and through their different experiments they tried to explained…
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research. • Discuss ethical considerations related to research studies at the biological level of analysis. • Discuss ethical considerations in research into genetic influences on behaviour. • Discuss ethical considerations related to research studies at the cognitive level of analysis. • Discuss ethical considerations related to research studies at the sociocultural level of analysis. • Discuss cultural and ethical considerations in diagnosis (for example, cultural variation…
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Brianna Fitzpatrick Sociological Analysis Assignment 2 26 September 2014 1. What police procedures are used during arrests, and how do these procedures lead people to feel confused, fearful, and dehumanized? There are many police procedures that are used during arrests. Suspects are handcuffed, put into a police car, booked at the station, read their Miranda rights, identified, and taken to a holding cell. The specific behaviors used by law enforcement during these procedures are what tend…
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One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state. It may seem odd to some to dispute this, given the apparently ceaseless flow of atrocity reports from Bosnia, Somalia, Lebanon and Los Angeles that we suffer every day. But, in fact, a very little study of animal ethology (and some application of ethological methods to human behavior)…
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Conformity The power is HORIZONTAL The power transmission comes from our equals our peers Obedience Power transmission is Vertical Taking orders from those who are in authority superior (boss teacher, etc Stanley Milgram- student of Asch Wants to explore obedience in Nazi Germany Milgram’s Paradigm (1960s) 1) Proposes a study on “the effects of punishment on learning” a. Man in white lab coat “the experimenter” b. Confederate (actually a researcher) c. Pick from hat “teacher” or “learner” d. Administer…
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See written notes for first 2 slides. Culture shock Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life Happens in our own communities as we confront people of other cultures See pg 38 Confronting the Yanomano and Horace Minors Nacirema Only humans depend on culture rather than instincts to ensure the survival of their kind Elements of culture 4 COMMON ELEMENTS Symbols Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture Human capacity…
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Psychology Overview What is psychology? Study of behavior and cognitive activities Observable We can’t see psych, but we can still study it and its effects. Social Science Stems from philosophy (Metacognition and epistemology) Why learn psychology? To understand behavior and cognitive activities How does our brain work? To predict them What will happen if we do x? To modify them If y happens when x is present, can we make z happen also? To control them Can we make a-z from just one…
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