obedience
In "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram, Milgram explains that obedience is a natural occurring behavior, which acts on instinct ignoring a persons ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct (Milgram 343). In this experiment two people come into the laboratory where they are told they will be taking part in a study of memory and learning. One subject is the "teacher" and the other is the "learner". The teacher is ask to read a list of simple word pairs. If the learner does not remember the word pair the teacher was instructed to send out electric shocks of increasing intensity as punishment to the learner. Whereas, "The Stanford Prison Experiment" by Philip Zimbardo is an essay which explains why society has a need to "learn" to become compliant and authoritarian (Zimbardo 363). Zimbardo created a mock prison setting consisting of ten prisoners and eleven guards. They were instructed to take over the role of guards and prisoners. Zimbardo wanted to test the effect that prison has on guards and prisoners. Milgram and Zimbardo were both interested in ho
w people obey under authoritative circumstances, using "fake" settings to test obedience; however the writers differ in the seriousness of the fight for individuality and the use of reality. With Zimbardo's volunteers they sought out to dispense order and receive orders. Since Zimbardo's volunteers knew that they would be able to leave the prison and that it was not real, the experiment had no true effect. Real prisoners know that they are in for a long time and not just 14 days. However, in just six days and six nights their experiment was ended. The experiment got away from dealing with the intellectual exercise and started dealing with the psychological mishaps. "If normal, young, healthy, educated men could so radically transformed under . . . a "prison environment" . . . in so short of a time, . . . then one can shudder to imagine what society is doing both to the actual guards and prisoners . . . (Zimbardo 374)." Milgram, Stanley. "The Perils of Obedience." Behrens and Rosen. 343-356. Milgram's experiment was in a fake setting because the subjects were not likely to act in
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