Please watch this video, and then answer the questions beneath it.
1. Did seeing this change, or support, your views of the Milgram experiment? How so?
2. Were you surprised by anything here? What? Why?
Please answer those questions (along with your name and class time) by midnight tonight. Thanks!
1. No it did not. The video just restates what I have already read.
ReplyDelete2. No I was not surprised by anything here because the results were basically the same in the essay. People followed through even though they knew what they were doing was wrong.
Min (Jennifer) Cha
10 a.m. class
Garrison Enriquez
ReplyDelete10 AM
1. This supported my views on the Milgram experiment. I believed that people do follow the orders of an authority figure. This experiment was done many years ago, and this new generation experiment really only proves it true again. People will follow what a higher authority figure tells them to do, because they feel like they have too.
2. I was surprised that a human being could actually cause pain to someone who is screaming out telling them to stop. They did not want to hurt the person, but when the person began to scream, the shocking kept on continuing. This shows how wrong our ethics can be when we are placed beneath someone of higher authority. It's rather to scary to think about, but it's what most humans would do.
Ted Lee
ReplyDelete10 am
1. Seeing this video made me even more supportive of the Milgram experiment. It is different reading about an experiment that happened half a century ago and seeing the research conducted on videos with contemporary citizens.
2. Although I believed in the results of Milgram's experiments, it is still shocking to see it on video. It is surprising because I believe that I personally would not continue. However, this could not be the case.
Michael Morton 10 o'clock
ReplyDelete1. I was not surprised by the video -- it demonstrated what I had already read/heard about many times before. People obeyed the guy in the lab coat. If anything, it made me question the intelligence of people doing the experiment. This is probably because I'm seeing the experiment from an outside point of view, but the person being shocked did not seem believable and nobody questioned the legality of the experiment. All the subjects had to do was employ basic logic: assuming it's legal, the shocks are fake or it's perfectly safe and there is no need to worry.
2. I was not surprised for reasons stated above. I'd seen and heard it before.
Alex Bule 10AM
ReplyDelete1. This video supported the views I have with the Milgram experiment, that people will go to surprisingly great lengths just because they are told to do so. despite the subjects' high level of discomfort, they continued with shocking the "learners" of the experiment because the experimenter told them it had to be done.
2. I was surprised that there was no way, prior to the experiment, that the conductor of the experiment could tell how far the subject would go to shock the "learner". I would think that there would be at least some indication, but according to the video, any given person could give any given shock.
Shea Shoemaker
ReplyDelete10 a.am. class
1. This video supports the idea of Milgram's experiment. The man continued to shock the other man because he felt it wasn't his fault the man was being hurt. He said that the man could've taken of the things that were shocking him if he really wanted to. He also was pressured by the experimenter just like the people in Milgram's experiment were.
2. I was surprised to see that this man doing the shocking didn't stop. I would think that if the man being shocked was having heart trouble, even if the experimenter said to keep going, the man doing the shocking would stop.
Marie Biaggi
ReplyDelete10 am
1. I think it supported Milgram's experiment. It was, basically, the same exact situation that these subjects were put in, and compared to when they did it years ago, their reactions were the same. The subjects gave into the authority figure rather than their own morals (and it's not as if they were going to lose anything if they did end up stopping the experiment early).
2. I wasn't surprised that their reactions were similar to Milgram's subjects'. Originally, though, I was surprised that the majority of subjects persisted in "shocking" the learner. you would think that most people would stick to their own beliefs rather than obey a stranger's directions.
Steven Tarkington
ReplyDelete10 a.m.
1. After the video I have the same views as before. I just can't see how anyone would keep going in that kind of situation. If you hear the other person screaming and asking to leave how could you consciously keep punishing him. From where I stand I could not have participated in the experiment at all. I would not want to be put in that kind of situation where I could potentially really harm someone or even kill them.
2. It was surprising just seeing the teacher continue with the experiment even after the learner asked to leave. It's one thing to read it in a story, but to watch them keep going under the circumstances is surprising. And the fact that most of the teachers expressed discomfort at the learner getting hurt, yet they continued on with the experiment was weird to me.
Mindy Pham 10 a.m.
ReplyDelete1. Seeing this video supported my views of the Milgram experiment that people do listen to authoritative figures even if there are no incentives for them. They wanted to please the experimenter and believed that it was not their responsibility for the pain of the shocks.
2. I was surprised to see the people administering the shocks flinch very noticeably when they heard screams, but they still continued with the experiment. The people did not even question the experimenter if the other person was okay or not.
Jon Skelton
ReplyDelete1. This video supports my views that people continue with the experiment because of the influence of the experimenter. The man delivering the shocks is an electrician who knows the dangers of electric shock, but he continued with the experiment just because the man told him to.
2. I was not surprised by the reactions of the test subjects, but I was more surprised by the changes made from the original test. In this version of the experiment subjects are given money, which can prove to be an incentive to continue. The subject may feel obligated to do what the experimenter asks. Also, the experiment stops a lot sooner than the original to save people from the stress, but the stress caused by the conflict of shocking a person was the original purpose of the experiment.
Emma Manley
ReplyDelete10AM
1. Based on what happened in this video, this experiment supported the results from the previous Milgram experiment. The person giving the shock treatment continued under the pressure of an authority figure, even if it made them uncomfortable. This video made me hope that people would react differently, but it proved that things have not changed.
2. I was surprised when the man that was committing the shocks used the excuse that "the straps to hold him in were little, and if he wanted to get out he could have." Clearly, the man could have simply stopped when he heard the actor yelling, but he blamed the victim and not himself. I was disappointed and hoped that I and many other would react differently when under a similar circumstance.
Mikayla Molinaro 10 AM
ReplyDelete1. Seeing this video supported my views of the Milgram experiment. The story opened my eyes to what people will do in the presence of authority, and even brought a realization to human nature in general. Humans are constantly striving to impress the people above them in order to be successful. We fear failure and want to prove ourselves worthy to our authority figures.
2. I wasn't really surprised by anything in the video, however one interesting point that wasn't in the reading was the attempt to predict who would continue before actually performing the experiment. Researchers tried to find links in the kinds of people that would be more likely to follow through, but found no patterns that could justify any sort of analysis. Instead they came to the conclusion that all kinds of people are capable of doing something like the Milgram experiment, and while we all might say we would never harm another person, it isn't until we are truly placed in the situation that we will know how we'd react.
Laurie Ho
ReplyDelete10 AM
1. Seeing this video supported my views of the Milgrim experiment because both had the same results of people continuing to shock the learner even though they were clearly uneasy about going on. People are so conditioned to listen to people that seem to be the authority.
2. I was not surprised to see anything on the video because what I saw matched what I read.
Mary Gao
ReplyDeleteTR 10am
1. I see this supporting my views of the Milgram experiment because the video just showed that people did follow authority and keep on shocking the learners. Also, it was interesting to see that the video showed one guy who laughed. It reminded me of Mr. Braverman, a subject, who laughed as he shocked the learner. This video only strengthened the results of the Milgram Experiment. It showed that people, most of the time, keep on doing things, even though someone is being harmed, because of obedience to authority.
2. I was kind of surprised that people kept on going, all because they wanted to obey the authority. In this modern world, people are much more individualistic. The test was conducted in the Bay Area, a place that is very liberal. I expected the subjects to stop or tell the experimenter that they could not go on with the experiment since the learner was hurting.
1. This video did not change my view on the Milgram experiment. I liked that in this video, the subjects were questioned why they kept going, however. I'm not surprised that people still followed through. And I also liked that the experimenter said that they get fifty dollars for doing the experiment, even if they quit early, which is different than the first experiment, because people didn't feel like they had to follow through because they were indirectly told that they can quit early if they need to.
ReplyDelete2. I was surprised that people didn't quit earlier. When they were given fifty dollars to participate, they were told that they can still keep it even if they quit early, which meant that they were not obligated to stay. Also, I thought it was surprising that one man put the blame on the learner by saying that the learner would've taken the circuits off him if he couldn't handle it.
Sammy Xian
ReplyDelete10 AM class
1.My view on the Milgram experiment is that it really is in human nature to listen to authoritative people. This video only supported my opinion because of how people, in the present time, continue to go on with the experiment no matter how much the learner complains. It showed how one man was completely stressed out by the time the experiment was over. He, like the subjects in the original Milgram experiment, didn't understand why they did what they did.
2. I was surprised by how the experiment was re-done again even though the Milgram experiment is pretty well-known. I thought that most people would know about it and react differently, but I'm guessing only certain people were chosen as subjects. If these people already knew about it, then I really am amazed at how strange we are.
1)Seeing this supported my views of the Milgram experiment. I believe that people are under the impression that they must follow authority. A man wearing a lab coat as the authority and the men or women who keep doing as they say, even though they know it is wrong proves how easily influenced humans can be.
ReplyDelete2)After reading the article, I was not surprised by what had occurred.
Victoria Garcia 10 AM.
Breanna Jow
ReplyDelete10 am
1. Watching the video did change my view on the Milgram experiment in that the researchers, this time, were gracious enough to not subject the participants to a highly stressful situation. However, it did not change my view on the results of the experiment; human nature is human nature, and that is not likely to change drastically in only 40 or 50 years. Maybe in several thousand or millions of years it might, but the instinct to fight or flee is something basic that is intrinsic of everything (as far as we know).
2. I was not surprised by anything included in the video because in a given situation, people are apt to flee instead of fight. Even though many people would have preferred to fight in this experiment, they gave in. Many people have an ideal image of themselves, but in reality, we may not live up to our own expectations. For any choice that we mike make in this experiment or a similar situation, we have to make our choice and then live by it.
1. This video definitely supported my views on the Milgram experiment. Before watching the video, I wondered whether the time period of the Milgram experiment had anything to do with the results. It had no influence at all. The experiment relies on the flaws of humans and our nature. We follow orders due to the satisfaction we get from doing so, and rationalize our wrongdoings by saying we were "only doing what we were told"
ReplyDelete2. I was kind of surprised that the results were shockingly similar. Since this experiment was more recent, I expected the overall population to be more educated and sympathetic. However, I now believe that this isn't a variable that should affect the experiment.
Hong Kim, 10am
1. Watching this Milgram experiment follow up supported my original views from the experiment we read about. It showed normal people, who are not evil or malicious, just fulfilling what they thought was their duty. From the reading I saw that people would do unethical things if they felt like it was not their responsibility and the electrician in the video said that exact same thing. He even put the blame on the other participant.
ReplyDelete2. I am surprised they did not run the whole experiment because I would have liked to see if anything had changed from the first time this was performed.
Andrew Farkas
10:00am
Christopher Harron
ReplyDelete10am class
1. Seeing this did not change my views of the Milgram experiment because over the summer I took the class intro to psychology and there we looked at Milgrim's experiment more in depth and also talked about human obedience to authority. Intro to psychology convinced me that people are capable of performing monstrous tasks even if it involves the harm of other people. This video only reaffirmed my belief.
2. The only thing that I was surprised by was the fact that the directors of the experiment stopped the experiment before the subjects were experiencing too much stress. I am glad they did this because in the video's from Milgrim's original experiment they persuaded the subjects to shock someone to the maximum level on the machine, which definitely seemed to put a lot of tension on the subject.
10 AM
ReplyDelete1. Seeing this video supported my views of the Milgram experiment even more. After reading about the experiment, I supported his idea that people are obedient to authoritative figures regardless of whether or not there is a purpose of their actions. After watching this video, my view was confirmed. I was pretty disturbed at how the man continued to shock the other man, aside from the fact that he was shouting in pain. I think that his justification of, "I was just doing my job" is pathetic and continues to support how people listen to authority rather than their own conscience and morals.
2. In a way, I was not too surprised to see the man continue to administer the shocks regardless of the shouting man in pain. Since I already read about this experiment in the essay, I already knew what to expect.
Ryan Motamed
ReplyDelete10 AM
1. This video supported my views on the Milgram experiment. The video made me visualize it and hear the screams. The test subject seemed like a normal guy who wasn't evil or cynical. He just stayed because he was in a different mindset. When he was interviewed later, he was confused as to why he did the things he did.
2. I was surprised that even in modern times people do things like this. I thought maybe the experiment was old and so it wouldn't relate to use now, but clearly it still has the same effects on us.
Magali:
ReplyDelete1. This video supported my views of the Milgram experiment because it was just what Milgram's study presented, that people would be obedient to an authoritative figure. In fact, it stated that about two-thirds of the participants shocked the subjects up to the highest level of shocks.
2. It was surprising because its hard to believe that people would go against what they think, such as the electrician that new that the shocks were probably very dangerous especially because of the subject's heart condition. Yet, it was also expected because it had already happened in the Milgram experiment where good people would obey the authoritative figure.
8 am.
Chin Vong
ReplyDelete10AM Class
1. This contemporary experiment, though less severe, only reinforced the results of Milgram's experiment. The volunteers followed the same actions and had the same mindset in their justifications.
2. You would think that because time has passed and because we as humans have grown more knowledgeable that we would have developed a more rigid sense of justice. This experiment just proves otherwise. People are still weak minded even to this day.