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Milgram Obedience Study: Phineas Gage

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Another thing, the Milgram obedience study as where they picked a group of people and they paired them by two types “teacher” or “student”. The things they did in this study were worse that the Zimbardo prison study because the student had to be shocked. The student had to learn for example a list of vocabulary words if they did not learn them they would get shocked with electricity. They would do several rounds to see if they learned and they electricity shock would go up to 450 volts (that is like getting hit by lighting). I learned also about the famous Phineas Gage. Phineas Gage was a person that a rode when straight through his head while working. Phineas live 12 years after the incident. I wonder how he live and if his life was difficult

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