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Read the attached document and then answer the question that follows. What conditions led to obedience in the Saints case? 

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Read the attached document and then answer the question that follows. What conditions led to obedience in the Saints case? 

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AP Psychology Unit 10 Day 2-Saints Bounty Scandal.docx

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To what extent does conformity research (Asch's experiment, ingroup/outgroup) prove humans to be social beings? (Strongly proves, somewhat proves, does not prove) Be sure to explain you answer

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To what extent does conformity research (Asch's experiment, ingroup/outgroup) prove humans to be social beings? (Strongly proves, somewhat proves, does not prove) Be sure to explain you answer

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Why do you think the levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated?

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Why do you think the levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated?

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Are people inherently obedient? Why or why not?

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Are people inherently obedient? Why or why not?

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Asch's conformity strongly proves humans to be social beings because based off the video we watched, it showed evidence how humans are scared to be different and they don't want to be criticized by everyone around them or in a group as a whole. Most humans allow their social environments change their perceptions, which connects to peer pressure.

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People are more likely to conform when there is an incentive involved. Here, it was money (Extrinsic motivation), and wanting to win something. There were around 25 players involved in the scandal, and this means this is a bigger group--people are more likely to conform about what other people are thinking about.

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The football players were involved in a situation where they had to hurt the other teams football player in order to win. They was told by their coach and by their coach being over them and over ruling they want to satisfy the coach and listen to their directions. Some may have thought well that wrong but at the same time they thought well they are going to probably win but they was getting something out of it.

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Levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were change by the teacher telling the learner the questions and if they was right or wrong. The learner was in charge of listening to the answer and sending shocks to the person but not really. It messed the the learner mentally because he didn't want to continue doing it and find it wrong to keep hurting the man. And by it being a teacher your going to listen because you think its right but it not.

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these experiments help prove that humans go along with what people do. The experiment with how 4 people said the wrong response on purpose so the other person could go along with the group and most of the time they ended up saying the wrong response to fit in with the crowd.

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Conformity research strongly proves that humans are social beings. Asch's conformity experiment showed that participants are willing to change their answers to avoid feeling pressured for standing out against a group of others. In the elevator, when the people walked in and turned around, the participant also turned around because they were not sure why they did it. People did not want to feel isolated, so they do what the people around them do.

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In Asch's study it has proven human to be social being because during the experiment everyone was tested and one person was the odd one and everyone said 1 and he went on and said what they said every time. For example when your by yourself you tend to do what ever but when in a group you tend to go with the flow.

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Humans are somewhat social beings. It shows that we need a social life to interact with other that gives them a sense of belonging. But acting independent also gives insight on oneself. Asch's experiment tells that they want to agree with people to understand that they're right. But to those that wanted to say the correct form, independently, says that they want to prove to themselves that they are correct.

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Asch's conformity experiment proved human to be very social creatures. Humans tend to feel embarrassed when they stand out in a way that may be seen as bad. They will do things like say the wrong answer when the answer is clearly wrong. Asch's experiment highlighted how people are willing to change themselves in order to fit in or conform to society's standards or expectations.

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Conformity research strongly proves humans to be social beings. Asch's experiment shows that people follow what other groups of people do.

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Conformity research influences people to be more social to a great extent. Conformity is the tendency for people to adapt to their behaviors, attitudes, and opinions to fit the actions of other numbers of a group. In several experiments, people are willing to conform to the actions that other people are ding in order to "fit in" and be accepted. People don't like feeling neglected and judged, therefore they'll do anything such as change their answers or actions to be like the people that are surrounding them.

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Conformity research prove humans to be social beings. Based on the video that we watched, we usually conform to things in order to be accepted and be part of a group, like the in the video of guys identifying which lines match with the others, everyone agreed even if some of them were wrong because they don't want to be different.

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Conformity research strongly proves humans to be social beings. Asch's experiment was a great example of how people can conform to group decisions. The experimenters were presented with choices and they had to pick the correct one. The fake experimenters would chose the wrong answers on purpose. After some time the experimenter would chose to say the wrong answer just because the fake experimenters chose them first. Although not all of the experimenters conformed to the group, most of them in fact did despite knowing the group was wrong. When there was one fake experimenter who said the correct answer and the rest of the fake experimenters said the wrong one, the real experimenter was more willing to say the correct answer as well. The fact that the experimenter was not alone increased their confidence to be individual.

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Conformity research strongly proves that humans are social beings. Asch's experiment shows how humans are so easy to conform to others in order to fit in and not to stand out. Humans depend on others and are able to form their own social groups. Even people who are considered "loners" are still able to make their own group of other people who don't really have other people they relate to.

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Asch's conformity strongly proves human to be social beings. In Asch's conformity experiment, it shows the guy who is taking the elevator sees others turning around and then he starts to turn around slowly, too.  Moreover, when he sees other people wearing hat, he does the same thing; and when others taking the hats off, he follows the crowd again. It demonstrates that people tend to follow the public. It also shows the theory of ingroup which is social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member. Whenever the guy tries to follows others action, he is trying to the part of them. All of these from the Asch's conformity tell that human are social beings.

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Conformity research strongly proves humans to be social beings. Asch's experiment proves this because the subject's answer and response to the questions were influenced by their peers. In the experiment the subject would say the same answers as their peers no matter if they were right or wrong because they wanted to fit in and  they didn't want to be criticized.  The video we watched strongly proves humans to be social beings because when in the elevator the subjects either slowly conformed or conformed right away with the others in the elevator just to fit in and not be different. The people in the elevator would either turn around like everyone else or like the guy with the hat would take his hat off and do everything the group did to fit in with the environment.

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I believe that people are inherently obedient. Many people are motivated by extrinsic ideas, and it's part of original human nature to just conform to different things. We've grown up being taught to conform to different things, and evolutionally, we aren't too different than mirroring animals.

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Asch's experiment strongly proves that humans are social beings. In his experiment he proved that humans conform to society with the people in the elevator because the test subject changed their answer based off of what the group was saying even though he knew that their answer was wrong. The test subject was afraid of being criticized by the group.

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Conformity research proves humans to be social beings because the environment impacted the group during the experiment. During the experiment if the whole group picks B everybody else picks B, it is rare somebody picks a different letter.

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Conformity research strong proves humans are social beings. During Asch's experiment, although people know things are flat-out right, they're willing to want to be part of the "Ingroup" and talk about the other ones. There's a huge size of the majority, and people are more willing to understand others when they want to conform. We're social creatures; they're willing to understand what other people's say to conform.

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Asch's experiment and research somewhat proves how humans are social beings. His experiment helps the support the idea that people like to be socially accepted and that other people can influence their decision. People being socially accepted is apart of them being social. However, that does not fully prove that all humans are social beings. Like the little girl from the video didn't have an ingroup but she was okay with just having herself. Not all people are going to want to be accepted if they are fully satisfied with themselves.

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The levels of obedience varied as the experiment conditions changed because as the teacher continued to shock the learner , they started to feel guilty from hearing the painful cries from the learners. most of the teachers started to refused to listen to the authority figure , who began starting to force them to continue through the experiment.

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The levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated in Milgram's Experiment. In the beginning, the shocks were minuscule and didn't seem as harsh as the rest of the shocks so it was easier for the teacher to administer them. As the shocks increased in strength and the learner's cries increased, the teacher was hesitant in delivering more. When the shocks neared fatal, the teacher tried to stop but the authority figure insisted that the teacher continue and most of the time they did.

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The levels of obedience varied as the experiment conditions changed because as the teacher kept shocking the learner, they heard the pain the person was in and realized they were hurting them. I the teacher felt like they didn't have to shock the learner than they didn't but those who felt that they needed to obey the authority figure then they kept going.

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Levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated because it made the participant more or less vulnerable feeling pressure to fit in. In Asch's experiment, when the participant was able to write their answers down, they were more likely to write the answer they came up with, as opposed to the answer of the group when they spoke out loud. When they did not have to have their answers heard, they were less likely to conform.

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The experiment had made people feel guilty or empathy to the person that was being shocked. But when the experiment kept going, they couldn't handle the pressure of hurting another human being or being forced by an authority figure.

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The levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated because when the learner would get a question wrong and was zapped by the teacher, the doctor would tell the teacher to keep going even though it was harming the learner. The teacher was obeying the doctor and had high obedience levels even if it was harming the learner.

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people when they feel like person with authority is wrong 

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people when they feel like person with authority is wrong 

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The levels of obedience varied because some people felt guilty about hurting the learner, but were encouraged by the authority figure to continue the shocks.

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The levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated. The learner continued to get shocked and the shock got more powerful each time, once it started to hurt the learner refused to push the button but the authority figure pushed him to push the button.

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I believe that humans are inherently obedient because they are quick to follow or listen to an authority figure Milgram's experiment proves that humans are willing to do wrong things, even if they don't want to, when someone in a higher power tells them to. Although some hesitated, they eventually agreed with continuing due to the orders given by the authority. In life we are quick to listen to people who have higher positions, like teachers even though we can easily refuse to do so.

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I believe people are inherently obedient. People obey  those that they believe to be an authority figure. For example, people parents, or police officers are authority figures that people obey but we don't necessarily see our friends as an authority figure so we don't obey them.

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In this situation, the players were most likely to conform because they were driven by something everyone wants, like money. I also feel like they wanted to fit in with the rest of the team or the group with people that were involved to avoid criticism from them. The coaches didn't speak on it also because they wanted to win so allowing the players to continue , gave them more room to conform.

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There were many conditions in which led to obedience in the Saints case. The players were offered bonuses if they performed the corresponding actions. When money is added to demands people are more willing to conform to them. Not to mention that their very own head coach was aware that it was happening and he did nothing to stop it. People look up to and obey authority figures more than anyone else. It was easier for these players to conform because an authority figure basically approved of them continuing to do it.

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i think the levels of obedience significantly varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated because once you've started, you don't want to stop. People knew that when they pressed the levers to shock the person, they were hurting them. Depending on what the authority figure says, it can significantly affect how you handle certain things and why you keep going. It was the pressure to fit in and not get in trouble by the authority figure that the levels of obedience varied. People wanted to be moral, but they also wanted to conform and follow the rules.

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The players wanted to get ahead of others quicker and the reason they listened to the authority figure about hurting certain  players was because they offered them a way or kind of a reward and they saw this as an opportunities and they took it because they get a reward for it.

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The conditions that led to obedience in the Saints Scandal was the benefit being offered. If the players were able to injure others for extra money, they were likely to do it. The people that had orchestrated the scandal were people with experience in the NFL. William Gregg was a defensive coordinator, so the players who took direction from him were obedient because they sensed his authority.

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The levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated. During the experiment, the learner was forced to continue shocking by pressing the button because the authority figure kept telling the learner to go on. The learner felt pressured and knew it was wrong and didn't want to keep pressing the button anymore; he knew it was hurting others, but was forced to continue.

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The players conformed to obedience because they were driven  by money. When something valuable is involved to bribe people, they will do it and obey whatever has to be dont in order to get the reward. Since the players that were injuring the other targeted players, got paid bonuses, they were willing to do it.

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The players obeyed the orders because they were given by an authority figure, Gregg Williams, the defensive coordinator. There were also a lot of players that participated, so players that weren't involved were influenced to do it.

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people are inherently obedient because the authority figure they listen to. like maybe a doctor or teacher they feel like they are qualified for what they want to do and if they listen to them they will get the job done. For example you listen to your gym trainer because you think he is qualified and you will get results/reward for listening to them.

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They were given a deal which had made them obey. The conformity had made them feel pressured to listen.

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The conditions that led to the obedience was the money. The players wanted the reward so they didn't care about the players that they were hurting. There was also a large number of them meaning that the players were more likely to conform because everyone else's was going along with it and they didn't want to be scrutinized for not joining.

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The levels of obedience varied as the experimental conditions were manipulated according Milgram's  experiment. In the experiment, the teacher was told by the authority figure to press the button to do the electric shock; when the teacher felt bad and wanted to stop the shock, but the authority figure kept telling him that to press it and the teacher did so. It implies that people still are going to be obedient to the rulers although they think it is wrong due to the pressure.

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In Milgram's experiment, the levels of obedience varied

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i believe people are inherently obedient because if they grow up already knowing the idea of a authority figure, it will then slowly be placed in their minds as a child then it will continue to follow them as they grow up also.

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Yes since we were raised, we were taught to be obedient so it is basically part of how we act (Nurture).

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I believe that people are inherently obedient because when their is an authority figure over you, you tend to go along with it and do as they ask. for example someone brother tells them to keep washing the dishes every time it fills up and I will give you money every time.

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I believe some people are inherently obedient because when humans have trust in an authority figure or someone like a doctor, people trust them to know what they are doing. People automatically obey a police officer because he ahs a gun and several other equipment, which makes it appear to others that they have lots of power. This intimidates people to have high obedience levels for them.

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People are inherently obedient because they are likely to believe people who they perceive to have authority. For instance, if someone's doctor gives them directions to solve a medical issue, they are likely to follow it even if it was silly because they understand that a doctor has experience and the knowledge to handle cases like their own. People are obedient because they do not want to feel ostracized for being one of the few or the only one to not follow along.

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The Saints players and coaches hit the players on purpose because they would get payed every time they got somebody injured

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People are inherently obedient because its apart of our human nature. When we are born we grow up based on principles that we should always be obedient and follow directions given by authority figures. If a psychologist tells someone to sleep with high pillows so that they wont keep waking up with mild headaches, the person will most likely obey because its a certified and paid psychologist who is telling them. We follow directions based on how we were motivated, whether that's an authority figure or group conformity. People tend to follow the group just to fit in and seem "cool".

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The levels of obedience in the participants varied because of the rising harshness of the experiment. At the beginning of the experiment when the shock levels started of low and seemed pretty harmless the people playing the role of teacher were fine with shocking the learners. However as the learners shock punishment kept on getting more painful they started to hesitate and to refuse to keep on doing what the authority figure was saying. The sound of fake cries from the learner also affected the teacher figures by making them feel guilty and making them feel responsible for their pain. It made them waver and to refuse to comply with what they were being told to do.

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People are inherently obedient because they listen to authority figures that they believe they are trustworthy. People also follow other people so they can fit in and not feel different.

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People are inherently obedient because anybody will listen to who they think have authority and will also believe and copy anything they do

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This is when people think the authority figure is not qualified no more and is giving them negative results instead of a reward. So when the learner kept shocking the person and he was keep on giving wrong responses he got upset.

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I think the levels of obedience varied for each of the subjects because as the level of shock increased, the shock posed more of a 'threat' towards the person answering the questions. It is very hard for a normal human being to cause so much harm to a person that it poses a threat on their life. It is slightly easier to harm somebody in a smaller way that will not cause them great bodily harm.

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I think people are inherently obedient because people have been obeying to authority from the moment they are old enough to understand what the person in authority is saying. A baby understands that when a parent yells they mean it and they obey their authority. It continues onward throughout life and people tend to continue to obey authority even when they are 'rebelling' they still obey others.

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The fact that they were being paid for injuring other players helped bring obedience and possibly the threat of being exposed if they ever decided to come clean about what they had been doing.

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The conditions led to the obedience in this case were the money and conformity. Some players did injury the opposing players due the temptation of money, and more and more started to join them when they noticed that it was beneficial. As the majority of people joined it, the rest of the people would like to conform it, in the meanwhile, they did not want to be criticized by the majority.

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People are inherently obedient. From Milgram’s experience, we could tell that human beings are naturally obedience to the authority figures who are more powerful than them.  For example. the teacher did what authority figures told him to do in Milgram’s experience; most of the students follow teachers’ directions in the class; people obey the rules when they see police or someone in the uniform. People automatically being obedience whenever they are under this kind of circumstance. People obey the rules from the authority figures and that is also how society works.