{"id":132029,"date":"2023-08-19T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/discussion-question-obedience-psychology-homework-help\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T12:40:12","slug":"discussion-question-obedience-psychology-homework-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/discussion-question-obedience-psychology-homework-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion question: obedience | Psychology homework help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Because I said so . . .<\/p>\n<p>In our culture it is fairly normal to see a parent socialize their children to obey authority figures without question. We teach them that because they are a child if they question the authority figures in their life that they are being disrespectful and often punish them for this kind of questioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now consider the outcome of Milgram&#8217;s research into obedience in which many participants followed the request of a perceived authority figure and administering shocks up to 450 volts to a person who simply got the answers wrong. Read the following article by Thomas Blass about Milgram and his research:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/200203\/the-man-who-shocked-the-world\">http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/200203\/the-man-who-shocked-the-world<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally read the article at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/story?id=1297922\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/story?id=1297922<\/a> about the prank call at McDonalds that lead to the false imprisonment and sexual assault of a young employee all because the assistant manager blindly followed the instructions of a man on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss, in general, why children are socialized to obey authority figures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Does the way we socialize our children set them on a possible path toward this kind of obedience?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What benefits come from our children blindly following the authority figures in their life?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What negative consequences can come from this kind of socialization?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Is there a better option in the way we socialize our children? If so, what would be a better strategy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should this strategy change as the child ages? If so, how would it be different for older children versus younger children?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I said so . . . In our culture it is fairly normal to see a parent socialize their children to obey authority figures without question. We teach them that because they are a child if they question the authority figures in their life that they are being disrespectful and often punish them for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}