Search results
A summary of Act 2 in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Crucible and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
- Act 1, Part 3
SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year...
- Quick Quiz
SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year...
- Act 1, Part 3
Mar 3, 2024 · There were four prods and if one was not obeyed, then the experimenter (Mr Williams) read out the next prod, and so on. Prod 1: Please continue Prod 2: The experiment requires you to continue. Prod 3: It is absolutely essential that you continue. Prod 4: You have no other choice but to continue.
A summary of Act 1, Part 2 in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Crucible and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
- Milgram’s Experiment
- Milgram’s Agency Theory
- Milgram Experiment Variations
- Critical Evaluation
- Ethical Issues
Aim
Milgram (1963) was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Stanley Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities, for example, Germans in WWII.
Procedure
Volunteers were recruited for acontrolled experiment investigating “learning” (re: ethics: deception). Participants were 40 males, aged between 20 and 50, whose jobs ranged from unskilled to professional, from the New Haven area. They were paid $4.50 for just turning up. At the beginning of the experiment, they were introduced to another participant, who was a confederate of the experimenter (Milgram). They drew straws to determine their roles – learner or teacher – although this was fixed an...
Results
65% (two-thirds) of participants (i.e., teachers) continued to the highest level of 450 volts. All the participants continued to 300 volts. Milgram did more than one experiment – he carried out 18 variations of his study. All he did was alter the situation (IV) to see how this affected obedience (DV).
Milgram (1974) explained the behavior of his participants by suggesting that people have two states of behavior when they are in a social situation: 1. The autonomous state– people direct their own actions, and they take responsibility for the results of those actions. 2. The agentic state– people allow others to direct their actions and then pass ...
Obedience was measured by how many participants shocked to the maximum 450 volts (65% in the original study). In total 636 participants have been tested in 18 different variation studies.
The Milgram studies were conducted in laboratory type conditions, and we must ask if this tells us much about real-life situations. We obey in a variety of real-life situations that are far more subtle than instructions to give people electric shocks, and it would be interesting to see what factors operate in everyday obedience. The sort of situati...
Content
Baumrind (1964) criticized the ethics of Milgram’s research as participants were prevented from giving their informed consent to take part in the study. As a result of studies like Milgram’s, the APA and BPS now require researchers to give participants more information before they agree to take part in a study.
Deception
The participants actually believed they were shocking a real person and were unaware the learner was a confederate of Milgram’s. However, Milgram argued that “illusion is used when necessary in order to set the stage for the revelation of certain difficult-to-get-at-truths.” Milgram also interviewed participants afterward to find out the effect of the deception. Apparently, 83.7% said that they were “glad to be in the experiment,” and 1.3% said that they wished they had not been involved.
Protection of participants
Participants were exposed to extremely stressful situations that may have the potential to cause psychological harm. Many of the participants were visibly distressed. Signs of tension included trembling, sweating, stuttering, laughing nervously, biting lips and digging fingernails into palms of hands. Three participants had uncontrollable seizures, and many pleaded to be allowed to stop the experiment. Milgram described a businessman reduced to a “twitching stuttering wreck” (1963, p. 377), I...
Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams because Abigail wants to marry Elizabeth’s husband, John, with whom she had an affair while serving in the Proctor household. “She wants me dead,” says Elizabeth of Abigail, and indeed, Abigail does intend for Elizabeth to die.
My Mum got diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in October ( she has it first in 2008) but this time it has spread to her spine, lungs, liver, kidney, basically anywhere you could think. So we were told it was terminal back in October but she could have chemo to slow the spread down.
People also ask
How does John Proctor feel about Abigail Williams?
What if Milgram's experiment was repeated in a rundown office building?
What happens if Mary Warren does not confess?
What happens when Mary Warren tells the court the truth?
What did Russell speculate about Milgram's improvisation?
Why is Parris worried about his career in Salem?
There were four prods and if one was not obeyed, then the experimenter (Mr. Williams) read out the next prod, and so on. Prod 1: Please continue. Prod 2: The experiment requires you to continue.
