The Stanley Milgram Experiment

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The Stanley Milgram Experiment is where the scientist’s actors fake conducting a first experiment to hypothesize if learning is better through pain. The people were chosen based off of how they acted in a simulation in a store. At the beginning of the experiment, the actor and chosen person are given slits of paper that are “random” to show who is the teacher and who the student is. The actor always gets student so that the participant can be the teacher. As the process is set up, the teachers are told that they are supposed to give the learner a set of words to choose from to go with another word given. If answered wrong, the teacher is supposed to give the student an electric shock. The experiment is to see how far one will go to harm someone…show more content…
Putting in perspective the fact of how much we are told to listen to our authorities, it’s somewhat scary that we oblige that much. Of course watching the experiment like that, we would say we would never go through that far with someone; but the actuality of the situation is that we are taught so much to follow what we’re told, that we wouldn’t give much hesitation, like these test subjects. Man Ran Over In Street In the video, we see two cars coming out of their lane into the opposite lane, and hit a man who is crossing the street. As the video goes on, we see no one helping him and barely glancing his way. Eventually, we watch someone go over to him, and then a crowd forming around him. But we see no one talking to him and asking if he is okay or trying to help him up. Mary Emma Hancock By the end of the video, we see the police arrive, but as he goes to check on the man, the crowd is still forming and just full of curiousness instead of worry for the old sir. I mainly feel angry watching this video because I wonder how people could be…show more content…
Many say they care, but when it comes down to hard times, so many others feel alone even if they had tons of friends before they got hit with a hard life problem. Family is the same way, in that they will love and care for you; but, once you screw up something or make a mistake, they don’t want to take claim for that and be affiliated with something that shameful. The Bystander Effect This video showed a group of actors faking a pick­pocket to see how a man acted when witnessing something like that. There was also a series of having people on the street in pain, distressed, or acting to be drunk in order to see how passer­byers reacted. The majority, people ignored the actions placed in each scenario, except when there was a well­dressed woman in distress. To see all of who really doesn’t care to notice the awful things around them and act on them is disappointing. This is our people now showing how much worse it can get in the future for those people. The inconsideration people get today because of how they dress, who is around them, etc. is mainly a factor I believe to start in Middle School. Just the other night, someone Mary Emma
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