Sunday, March 20, 2011

Book Reading #10: Opening Skinner's Box

Title:
Chapter 2: Obscura

Summary:
This chapter is about Stanley Milgram and his shock experiment.  In the experiment, there is a teacher and a learner.  The teacher reads a set of words, and the learner must repeat them, otherwise they receive a shock from the teacher.  The experiment was actually about obedience and how people follow what they are told.

Discussion:
I think that this experiment could be seen as horrible.  It was interesting, and scary that 65% of the teachers did not stop the shocks.  I don't know how I would react in a similar situation, but now that I have read about this experiment, I think that I would stop sooner.

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