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Essay Instructions: I want to cover the My Lai massacre and the text book im using is name Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. the rest of the details are below.

Essay 1 is a documented essay. Use one of the online sources on My Lai or Abu Ghraib, listed in this lesson's work, in addition to at least one of the essays on the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments in our textbook. Use your handbook (MLA section) when preparing citations and a Works Cited page. Topic: Two cases of overobedience to military authority in wartime that shocked America were the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1969 and the scandal that broke in 2004 regarding abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. Choose one of the cases - My Lai or Abu Ghraib - and show how it connects to the experiments conducted by Milgram and/or Zimbardo? What did the psychologists (Milgram and Zimbardo) conclude from their experiments that apply to the My Lai or Abu Ghraib incident? Your essay should be 1000 words besides the Works Cited page. Please do not use more than one block quote. Use at least two direct quotations and three paraphrases. Remember to have a strong thesis and a compelling intro and conclusion, in addition to the information you present in your body paragraphs.



Deadline:

Oct 9, 2011 11:59 PM

Thank you!

Essay Instructions: Use the Zimbardo, Milgram and Asch videos in a 3 page analysis of the following historical event:



My Lai Massacre



Integrate into your analysis of the selected historical event what has been learned from the Zimbardo, Milgram, and Asch study protocols and study findings. Be sure to apply each of these studies to your selected historical event. This is a fairly brief 3 page paper, but it is a paper dense with analysis and application of the Zimbardo, Milgram, and Asch studies. Please do not give a lengthy description of the actual event, rather focus on the four areas below. Note: the four parts below are taken from the rubric for the written assignment. Organizing the paper in the four parts clearly communicates that you have covered the four areas.

Heading and Structure for Social Influence Paper

Title page

Abstract page

Introduction

Part I. Examine the social and psychological environmental influences for

the historical event you've chosen. (1/2 - 1 page)


Part II. Discuss the development of attitudes in response to a passive

environment as it relates to the historical event you've chosen (1/2 - 1 page)

Part III. Discuss the following in light of the historical event you've chosen (1 - 11/2 pages):

(a.) effects of exposure

(b.) influence of attitudes



Part IV. Discuss the following in light of the historical event you've chosen (1 - 11/2 pages):

(a.) effects of evaluative conditioning

(b.) direct experience

Conclusion

Reference page

Miligram?s Obedience to Authority Experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk
Watch the video of the Milgram Experiment. The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist, Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. This is an updated version of the original experiment.

The Asch Experiment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA
Watch the video of Asch?s Conformity Experiment. Researchers have long been interested in the degree to which people follow or rebel against social norms. During the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a series of experiments designed to demonstrate the powers of conformity in groups.

Feenstra, J. (2013). Social Psychology. San Diego: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-62178-578-1

Chapter 4: Attitudes, Attributions, and Behavior
Chapter 5: Making Judgments
Chapter 6: Prejudice
Chapter 7: Persuasion
Chapter 8: Conformity and Obedience
Chapter 9: Groups
Chapter 11: Prosocial Behavior

Petty, R. E., Wegener, D. T., & Fabrigar, L. R. (1997). Attitudes and attitude change. Annual Review of Psychology, 48, 609-648. (ProQuest Document ID: 11097369).

Essay Instructions: This is for college freshman level reserch paper in english class. I must use direct quotes, summeries.
"The My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1969 was a particularly egregious case of overobedience to military authority in wartime. Show the conections between this event and Milgram''s experiments(The Perils of Obedience). Note that Milgram himself treated the MyLai massacre in the epilogue to his Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974).
I must cite the source.