The Milgram Experiment: The Bystander Effect

What factors do you think contribute to a bystander’s decision of whether to intervene or

In Derren Brown’s reenactment of psychologist Stanley Milgram’s experiment done in 1963, he solidified Milgram’s results by having the same framework as Milgram’s experiment. Milgram tested to see how much harm a person were to inflict if told to by an authoritative figure. In this particular experiment, a learning environment was set up, subjects were told that the focus was to see how negative punishment affects learning and they were told that they would be either a teacher or learner in the set up. All of the subjects in both Milgram’s and Brown’s situation were teachers and an actor, who all the subjects assumed to be another subject, as a learner. Learners were attached to a shocking mechanism ranging from 15 to a lethal 450 volts,

My reaction to this video is about time. After seeing all the previous my faith in

The nurse was asked what was hurting and "she replied that she was having head pain and a server headache", the next question which was asked what time the incident happened, and "she replied to it that it had happened around 16:30 hours and has been sitting here to see if the pain would go away", the next question which was asked if she wanted to go to the hospital, "she replied that she wants to go", The EMS crew then told the nurse to get up and move over to the stretcher located along the side of her and,"she replied that she did not want to go by a stretcher and, but she would prefer to walk out to the

Stanley Milgram writes about his shocking experiment in “Perils of Obedience.” Milgram writes on the behaviors that the people had during the experiment. Milgram had an experiment that involves two people. One person was a student and the other a teacher. The student was strapped into an electric chair and was required to answer certain questions. The teacher asked a certain word, and the student must know the pair that goes with it. If the student answered the question incorrectly, the teacher must shock the student. Each time the student answered a question incorrectly, the volts increase. Milgram was expecting the teachers to back out of the experiment once they saw the student in pain for the first time, but surprisingly enough, more than sixty percent of the teachers obeyed the experimenter and continued on with the experiment, reaching up to four-hundred-fifty volts. After three times of the four-hundred-fifty volt shock, the experiment was called to halt.

This experiment was created to induce conflict within the subjects. Milgram achieved this by using a shock generator which appeared to be completely authentic, and had an authority figure command the subjects to

For my own learning, this made myself acutely aware of the actions of others need to be questioned or at least queried, even if the care staff in this instance, thought they were doing the correct manual handling

I hope and Pray that I never get into a situation like that ever again, but if this were to happen again… I would hope in that situation that I would remain calm, remember all that I have been taught on how to react in an emergency situation, and just ensure that there is no room for negligence on my part. The saying “rather safe than sorry” rings loudly following this situation and is one I’ll hold close to me in future encounters with sickly patients.

The first video: The 78 Year Old Man In this video, a 78 year old man gets hit by car and nobody wants to help him, despite his cries for help. The car that hits him is trying to pass another car over a double yellow line, which isn’t even allowed to happen, and they either didn’t see the man around the car or they were just trying to get around him and the car fast. They sped away after hitting the man, leaving him lying on the ground in pain, crying for help. The old man lays there for quite some time and nobody is going to help him. He is yelling for help and you can hear how much pain he is in and nobody is stopping to help him.

The following essay will analyse the given scenario, where in a busy shopping mall a woman faints in front of an individual who is an off duty paramedic. The issue the scenario raises, is that the companion of the woman clearly does not know how to help her and the paramedic just carries on walking without offering any help.

I feel in Milgram's experiment it was shocking to see how people went through with the whole experiment. The teachers did not know that the people were not actually being shocked and kept going with it asking question knowing that the person is getting shocked when not answering the questions asked correct. I feel that is absurd how can a person do that to another. The teacher let the person in the white coat take full authority over them. If I was doing the experiment I would feel bad about hurting the person my conscious would kick in.

The Milgram Shock experiment was one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted, and also the most controversial. In the experiment, two subjects were studied. Through random selection, each subject was chosen to be either a teacher or a student. However, the choice was not random, and the student was actually an actor who would pretend to be the student. In the experiment, the teacher would read out certain words and have the student repeat them back as a sort of memory game.

“CODE STROKE! Ambulance arrival to trauma room one” was said over the load speaker just four hours into my first clinical shift. My preceptor and I were in the middle of cares for a patient that arrived around fifteen minutes before the code. It would be false to say that this did not intimidate the hell out of me. As a registered nurse, I am no stranger to delegation and rapid responses, and my preceptor said I can run the emergency if I choose too. However, this was a whole new ballgame for me, but I said yes anyway. Why not? How else would I learn if I didn’t jump right in. Therefore, I immediately asked the resource nurse if she could be waiting for the arrival while I settled my current patient. Once, my current patient was settled we went to the CT room where the patient, emergency physician, neurologist, charge nurse, two resource nurses, EMTs, lab tech, and CT tech were. At the moment I arrived, the patient began to seize, and my thought process was a bit

The bystander effect is both a social and psychological phenomenon in which an individual’s inclination towards showing helping behaviours are minimised by the influence of other people. Research has found that the more people acting as bystanders in a situation, the less likely it is that helping behaviours will be demonstrated. However in the correct conditions, where conditioned cues increase self-awareness, it is possible to reverse the bystander effect phenomenon. The bystander effect is prevalent in everyday life, and often decorates the news, shocking the world, especially when authority figures such as police men and women succumb to the effect. Diffusion of responsibility, ignorance of others interpretation of an event and self-consciousness are all social processes which appear to lead to social inhibition of helping behaviours and one of the main theories of the bystander effect is provided Latané and Darley (1970) whose cognitive model provides a series of decisions that can lead to social inhibition. The bystander effect is influenced by the conditions an individual is in when an event occurs, for example the bystander effect appears to be most dominant when an individual is in a group of strangers with low group cohesiveness. FINISH

The Milgram experiment is probably one of the most well-known experiments of the psy-sciences. (De Vos, J. (2009). Stanley Milgram was a psychologist from Yale University. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures as this was a common explanation for the Nazi killings in World War II. Milgram selected people for his experiment by newspaper advertising. He looked for male participants to take part in a study of learning at Yale University.