University Philosophy: Conformity and Obedience Experiment Analysis

This essay delves into the concepts of conformity and obedience, exploring the influential experiments conducted by Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram. The essay begins by defining conformity as the act of aligning one's behavior or beliefs with those of a group, using Asch's experiments to illustrate how individuals are influenced by the actions of others. The essay then transitions to obedience, defining it as compliance with the demands of an authority figure, and discusses Milgram's experiments, which examined the willingness of individuals to obey authority even when it conflicted with their personal conscience. The essay analyzes the factors affecting conformity, such as group size and the presence of dissenters, and provides a detailed overview of the methodology and findings of both experiments, including the implications of these studies on understanding human behavior within social contexts. The essay concludes by summarizing the key findings and highlighting the enduring impact of these experiments on the field of social psychology.

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Philosophy
Conformity and Obedience
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3/20/2020

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Conformity Experiment
Few experiments were carried on by the infamous Solomon Asch during the 1950s in
order to make sure how or why individuals get affected or are influenced through the actions
of other individuals or the contemplations they make. This experiment later came known to
the world by the experiment of conformity. While, in case of Experiment of Obedience, it
meant that any kind of opportunity is basically the variance in the conduct of a person to
agree to an interest by a power figure. Individuals frequently follow the solicitation as they
are mostly worried concerning the result that in case they might not consent over it
(Shuttleworth, 2020).
The so called Asch effect can be easily spotted in children when they have to
uninhibitedly rule for something. One instance that elaborates the above mentioned situation
is, if the teacher or educator here confirms whether the youngsters would prefer an additional
off or even some candy or if no schoolwork is imposed, when some of the kids vote while the
others will finally go along with the common decision and anyhow agree with the decision
made by the people who voted. This is what conformity talks about, as in being under a
pressure of doing something a certain way without any direct pressure being implied upon. In
such cases, what many people are doing matters or how the community acts towards a certain
issue or idea is what matters for making a clear decision (Smarr, Roberts, & Gilbert, 2018).
Conformity or Consistence for that matter is a kind of similarity that is being opted as a result
of what others are doing. It refers to obliging a certain solicitation or request for that matter,
without considering the fact that people do not anyhow concur with the said solicitation. In
the examinations or the experiments being conducted by Asch, the members here consented
by furnishing an inappropriate responses, however secretly did not reciprocate to the fact that
the undeniable wrong answers were right. Since the line judgment task was unambiguous,

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members didn't have to depend on the gathering for data. Rather, members consented to fit in
and keep away from deride, a case of standardizing social impact. Factors that affect a
person’s judgement include, the number or the size as such of the majority, the presence in
such cases of a dissenter, and the nature of the responses, be them public or private for that
matter (McLeod, Solomon Asch - Conformity Experiment, 2018).
Obedience Experiment
Similarity in somewhat manner is one such impact of the others on one’s musings,
emotions, as well as practices. While, other kind of social impact is the one that states clear
compliance to power. Obedience on a wide note is the difference in the conduct by a person
so as to confirm to an interest by a power figure. Here the individuals on usual basis confirm
to the solicitation as they are somewhat worried regarding the result in the said event that
they do not consent to. Stanley Milgram was an educator of social brain science at the
esteemed Yale and was very much influenced by the Adolf Eichmann, who was a Nazi war
criminal. Under the Eichmann's protection for the monstrosities Milgram submitted that he
was "simply following requests." Milgram in the year 1963 in order to test the legitimacy
concerning the resistance, he structured an experiment and hired around 40 people for the
same (Encina, 2014).
As per Milgram, “The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous
import, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations”
(McLeod, 2017). Here the volunteer members in every way were influenced that they were
somewhat taking interest as such in an investigation so as to improve the learning as well as
memory. Here the members were informed as that they were to show various understudies or
the student’s right responses for test things to progress. The members here were shown the
best method so as to utilize the potential of a machine that people were informed of as stuns

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that work through electricity. The members also were advised so as to stun the students at
such an unexpected moment they furnished an off-base response so to a thing that was to be
tested — such so that the stun here would help in the learning process. Members provided (or
accepted they gave) the students with the electric stuns, these stuns expanded in 15-volt, and
extended to around 450 volts. Here the members did not have a slight clue about that the
students here were the confederates and in actuality there were no stuns provided to the
confederates (Cherry, 2019).

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