PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Milgram Experiment, Jean Piaget
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Cases of feral children such as jeannie show the importance of society on human development. The milgram experiment, concerning the bystander effect within a scienti c lab environment, shows the importance of learning curves and empathetic human existence in determining nature: the shock readings, predicted and actual, shatter our assumptions about normal people". The projected fall-off range for abstaining from delivering shocks was gravely higher than anticipated. Eventually, 2/3rds of the subjects continued all the way to the end: the milgram experiment thus demonstrates the power of the situation". Social connections thus yield great relevance in the creation of personalities in general. In the arti cial monkey experiment, baby monkeys ran towards a source of security they preferred: this behaviour strikes parallels with natural human doctrines regarding security. Examples to prove central insights on personality/development include: affection and physical touch.
