The experiment that you are going to see below will surely make you reflect on many behaviors that occur in society and that all people do without really knowing why, adopting a sheepish attitude. In the video that you will see below, it is explained in a generic way.
They called this experiment "The Paradigm of the 5 monkeys." If you don't understand it, I'll explain it more clearly below.
[mashshare]When we use the concept of "paradigm" we are referring to a medium or model that will help us to explain a specific situation or behavior. In addition, this term acquires great importance in the field of psychology since it is capable of making us see how we are capable of accepting ideas as true or false without having doubted them at any time.
At paradigm of the 5 monkeys We see a situation that can be quite simple but that has some results and a very disturbing conclusion and that can be extrapolated to many behaviors in today's society.
Next I explain this paradigm of the 5 monkeys in a little more detail in case it had not been clear to you with the video.
Let's imagine the following situation:
Five monkeys are locked in a cage while being studied by a group of scientists. In the center of it a large staircase is placed with a bunch of bananas at the top. The monkeys identify them immediately and want to reach them.
The moment you try, scientists throw cold water on what is left on the ground.
Once a time of reasoning and assimilation of circumstances by the monkeys has passed, if one of them tried to go up to get the bananas, the rest of them would pick him up and beat until he stopped trying.
That's when the real experiment begins.
Scientists replace one of the monkeys with another that has never been in that cage. Of course, the first thing you will try to do is climb the stairs to get the bananas. It is at that moment when his new companions will catch him and beat him to prevent that from happening.
The monkey will not know very well why this is happening but it will begin to learn that this should not be done for some reason.
Then a new monkey is substituted. Surprisingly, the former participates in the blows, although he still does not know why they hit the monkey trying to catch the bananas.
This process is repeated little by little until only one monkey remains unsubstituted.
Finally, this last monkey is also substituted. So we are left with the following situation: we have a group of 5 monkeys who, although they have never received a cold bath as punishment for picking bananas, they act as if they had.
If you could ask one of these monkeys about its behavior, you would probably get an answer like: I don't know… it's the way things have always been done.
We may think that this experiment is isolated and that it has nothing to do with us, but we are wrong. With this experiment It was shown that the monkeys were actually living with a transmitted fear, but that they had never known.
Many times we accept many facts without questioning them, simply because all our lives they have been done that way. If those monkeys had been able to stop for a moment and reflect on what was happening, they might have ventured to try again to pick a banana.
How is the concept of paradigm applied in the previous case?
Explain two cases from personal or professional life, where people behave like monkeys?
How do you break a paradigm?
How is the concept of paradigm applied in the previous case?
Explain two cases from personal or professional life, where people behave like monkeys?
How do you break a paradigm?
In the city of Tuluá, an intermediate city of 200 thousand inhabitants, the member of a local band that participated in a band from Manizales (400 thousand inhabitants), with which he had the opportunity to participate in a show at Rock Al Parque in Bogotá , brought to this city the paradigm that Rock / Metal events should take place exactly as they were developed in that city or media region (Armenia and Pereira); that is to say, events of a single genre and that also, it did not make sense to hold an event with only local bands, which requires a widely recognized cartel band to be able to convince the public that what is done locally in this city is of level, that is to say, almost to beg from the fame of a third party, the acceptance of the local artist or musician, without allowing him to explore for himself if the effort of his music is worth or has at least acceptance. Well, under this sophism, they began to organize events with bands that in fact had wide national and even foreign recognition, under the argument that "the most extreme sells" (Underthreat, Maze of Torment, Torture Squad), and the The result over a couple of years was the creation of an audience that stopped paying attention to the local artist, and in turn, caused the local musician to be somewhat intimidated into at least making the effort to compose their own music. , preferring to mount cover bands or tributes; As expected, by imposing goals or references taken from a scene evidently much more advanced (conservatory musicians, university professionals, etc.) with respect to a more empirical scene, this caused the disappearance of many local acts and an environment where the prevailing law of least effort and individual defeat. In turn, metaphorically to the paradigm of the 12 monkeys, the cage in this case, are the social networks from which the "indoctrinated monkeys" to this sophism, give a "stick" to those who dare to have their own initiatives, either, to mount musical projects or events other than the "established" tastes, for what they consider to represent the collective feeling.
This experiment is very useful to make people understand that religions, instead of providing some benefit, only cause problems, in the Mexican state of Tabasco the vast majority of people are very poor, although in Latin America and Mexico there is poverty in There is EXTREME poverty in Tabasco because here people are very protected from "god", they think that being poor is a virtue. It is very sad that people become blind to something that we do not know if it exists or not, and they leave their life and their luck to what is only a fantasy, instead of preparing to achieve their goals.