2 The topic of the experiment was obedience, specifically obedience to an authority

figure. Milgram pushed his participants to injure another person every time that
person got a question wrong, he wanted to see just how far they would go to obey
and please him.

3 Milgram�s goal was to see first-hand a person�s capability to do harm to another

human under the orders of an authority figure. He developed a fake shock generator
with multiple different shock levels. He told participants that he was doing a
study on learning and said that he was experimenting with a punishment technique.
The participants were to ask another participant a series of questions, and if they
are answered correctly, they are to move on to the next question, but if it is
answered incorrectly than they must administer a slight shock, and after each
incorrect question they had to move on to a higher voltage. In truth the
participant being shocked was an accomplice it the experiment who was told to
answer several questions incorrectly, he was never truly shocked.

4 Milgram found that humans will go to great lengths to obey what we perceive to be
an authority figure. More than half of the participants went all the way to the
highest voltage on the shock board. Although they did feel very conflicted
throughout, at the end of the day the did what Milgram told them to. He also found
that people have a tendency to pass on the responsibility to the authority figure
instead of themselves.

5 During the experiment itself I would be very conflicted and anxious, being told
to hurt a fellow human to such intense amounts would have a toll. I can not
honestly say how far I would go on the shock generator; I do not think anyone can.
I can say that would most definitely assign blame to the authority figure, after
they are his orders. After being debriefed I would be relieved and outraged; I
would be glad that no one was harmed, but angry that I was made to think that I was
on verge of killing someone, and that I was told to do so; but mostly I would be
angry at myself that I did what they told me too.
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7 The topic of the video was research into infant attachment. The researcher
created an elaborate experiment where the child�s attachment to their mother was
tested, as well as their attachment to a new stranger.

8 The goal of the study was to learn about the attachment to people by infants. She
designed a twenty-minute experiment for children one-to-two years of age with eight
three-minute stages called the Strange Situation Classification (commonly known
simply as the Strange Situation). The experiment begins with leaving a child in a
small room with toys, with her mother and the researcher. And then after about a
minute the researcher departs, leaving the child and mother alone. During this
stage the researchers watch the child to see if she has the confidence to explore
the room or if she stays near her mother. The next stage begins with a stranger
entering the room. The researchers then record the child�s reaction to the
stranger. In stage three the mother leaves her child alone in the room with only
the stranger, and the researchers watch the child for signs of separation anxiety.
Stage four has the mother returning the room, and the researchers seeing the
child�s reaction to the reunion. During stage five the stranger leaves the room,
and during stage six the mother too, departs. This leaves the child alone for the
first time since thew beginning of the experiment. Only the stranger returns to
comfort the child in stage seven. And in the final stage, the stranger leaves and
the mother returns.

9 The researchers were measuring four variables during the experiment: proximity
and contact-seeking, contact maintaining, avoidance of proximity and contact, and
resistance to contact and comforting; as well as the exploratory behaviors of the
child. The researchers found, based on these measurements, that there are three
types of attachment: Secure Attachment, signs of distress are exhibited when the
mother exits the room, there is avoidance to the stranger unless the mother is
present, and there is happiness upon the mother�s arrival, seventy percent of the
studied children were securely attached; Ambivalent Attachment, intense distress is
exhibited when the mother departs, there is a fear of the stranger, and upon the
mothers return the child approaches the mother but rejects contact, fifteen percent
of children studied were ambivalently attached; the final form was Avoidant
Attachment, no sings of interest are shown when the mother departs, comfort is
found with the stranger, and the mother is ignored upon return. Later researchers
added Disorganized Attachment, where attachment signs are inconsistent. The
original researcher also created a hypothesis based on her findings, called the
Caregiver Sensitivity Hypothesis, which stated infant�s different attachment styles
are highly dependent on the behavior during different developmental stages.

10 To be honest I have no idea how I would act as a participant in this experiment,

after all I am no longer an infant and there would not be much of a point in
testing my attachment when I can now verbalize it. But I can say that I was rather
close to my mother as a child and always slightly wary of strangers, so I would
most likely exhibit Secure Attachment, as most do.