The Milgram Study: The Relationship Of Obedience

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The first thing I found to be extremely fascinating was the Milgram Study. This study in particular explains in dept how an average person will obey to an authority figure even though the orders could be terrible. I think it’s a fascinating study because typically individuals will not complete an order if it makes them feel uncomfortable. However, once you place someone with higher power they forget about the discomfort and instantly obey to the orders given to them. This topic is important in psychology because it shows the relationship of obedience. It goes to show the factors that have to be put in place for a person to obey to someone else’s orders. This helps psychologist understand how a person with higher power can ultimately control the decisions of a person with lower power.

2. The second thing I found fairly interesting in chapter 12 was the Bystander Intervention Effect. This is when people fail to offer help to someone in need when they see that other people are present. I find it interesting that people don’t help because of the feeling of embarrassment in front of a group of people, social influence, diffusion of responsibility, and wanting to remain anonymous. Typically there isn’t much harm by helping other out. When another person was beating Kitty …show more content…

The third thing I found to be extremely in chapter 14-15 was dissociative disorders. This is known as disruption of identity, memory, or conscious awareness. The different kinds of dissociative disorders is dissociative amnesia is when a person forgets and event or loses blocks of time, dissociative fugue is when a person experiences loss of identity, travel to another location without knowing how they got there, and dissociative identity is when there is two or more distinct identities within the same person or memory gaps. I find this to be highly interesting because when it comes to these types of people committing crimes it is very unlikely for them to prove that these were a result of

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