SELF DEVELOPMENT

SUBMITTED TO:
MR. ALI SULEMAN
SUBMITTED BY:
DUA E ZAHRA
180292
BBA(4C)

Assignment no: 01
April 17, 2020
 THE EXPERIMENTER
 Stanley Milgram created a lab in the basement of the Yale University. He
had a team of 4 members which included a student too. They used to perform
experiments in the lab. The experiment he used to perform had the following
characters:

1. The experimenter
2. The teacher
3. The learner

The experiments observed the responses of ordinary people asked to send

harmful electrical shocks to a stranger. The experimenter used to make a toss
to decide which of the person will act as a teacher and who will be the
learner. He used to pay the ones who used to act in his experiments.

Basically, he performed the experiments to study the human behavior of

‘obedience’. That how do an unknown person act upon the instructions of
the one inside the lab. And the results showed that about 65% people obeyed
his orders and continued to give electric shocks to the unknown person.
Maybe this was because they were being payed to do so and that’s why
could not say no to the experimenter because there had no other option.

He conducted this experiment which focused on the conflict between

obedience to authority and personal conscience. They were not forced to
complete the experiment but most of the people still competed it thus
showed an obedient behavior.

The main aim behind this study was to check that how far people would go
in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person (an unknown
person). 
Ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure,
even to the extent of killing an innocent human being because they knew that
they were paid to do so and had no other option but to follow what the
experimenter is saying them to do or maybe this is because the person being
ordered about is able to believe that the authority will accept responsibility
for what happens by their actions of giving the electric shocks. Also, it was
an informed consent and they were paid to perform this experiment and so
had no other option but to bear them shocks.

Another aspect is he wanted to study about the believing others. The teacher
believed in what screams and voices he listened although he could not see
the condition of the other person sitting in the next room who was getting the
shocks.

Sometimes obeying every order of the other person might be destructive as

everything they ask us to do is not right, but you are bound to obey them as
other person is more authoritative and dominant over you.

So, the whole movie tells us about the life of Milgram, his experiments and
criticism that he had received on his experiments.