Stanley Milgram Obedience to Authority.
...ock to severe shock. The voltage is from 15 to 450 volts. The experiment begins. The learner is asked to repeat the word back to the teacher, if he can’t get it correct the voltage is raised by 15 volts after each incorrect answer. The teacher does not know that there are no actual shocks being given to the learner, who fakes pain. The learner started to show a lot of pain and wanted out of the experiment at 150 volts. The Teacher is told by the experimenter to continue. But the teacher finally quit after the learner no longer made any sounds. As the testing went on the voltage increased up to 285 volts with the teacher. Gretchen Brandt a medical technician at Yale University was recruited to be the teacher. She was did not agree to continue on with the experiment. When she reached 210 volts she said to the experimenter “Well, I’m sorry, I don’t think we should continue.” Even when the experimenter told her to go on she held her grounds, not to administer anymore pain to the learner. The conclusion was that she had total control over her action and that it didn’t matter that it was an authority figure telling her what to do she was not going to hurt him. Next was Fred Prozi who was a 50-year-old unemployed ordinary man. He was very concerned about the learner after delivering 180 volts to the learner he wanted to stop but the experimenter told him to continue and they must go on. Prozi felt that it was more learners waiting to be apart of this study and that he didn’t want to responsible for the learner if he was to die. But when the experimenter told him that he the teacher wouldn’t be responsible for consequences he continued. When the learner got it wrong it went up to a 195 volts. Yelling “Let me out of here!” The teacher looks over to the experimenter for assurance. The experiment continues up t...