Bocchiaro

Question 1

Background

Answer 1

Milgram focused on obedience only, they wanted to discover more about disobedience and whistle blowing

Question 2

Aims

Answer 2

1)To investigate the rates of, the accuracy of and the sole of dispositional factors in; Obedience, disobedience and whistle blowing

Question 3

Design

Answer 3

Lab experiment

Question 4

Sample

Answer 4

• Undergraduates students from VU uni Amsterdam
• Volunteer-flyers posted in cafeteria
• 138 diff parts surveyed about how they believed they would respond in the experimental situation

Question 5

How many parts were there in the pilot study ?

Answer 5

92 parts

Question 6

How many parts in experimental study?

Answer 6

149, 96 women and 53 men

Question 7

Procedure

Answer 7

• parts given 7 Euro’s
• told experiment was about sensory deprivation
• instructed to write a letter convincing other students to take part
• use at least 2 words;”exciting, superb, great, incredible”
• left alone with a computer, mailbox and ethics committee forms
• taken back & given dispositional measures

Question 8

Why did he conduct 8 pilot studies ?

Answer 8

To endorse that the procedure was credible (didn’t realise they were being deceived) and ethically acceptable to parts

Question 9

What personality traits did the HEXAGO PI R test measure ?

Answer 9

1) Honesty humility
2) emotionality
3) extroversion
4) agreeableness
5) conscientiousness
6) openness to experience

Question 10

What were the dispositional measures ?

Answer 10

1) HEXAGO PI R Personality test
2) Decomposed games measure of social values
3) Religiosity

Question 11

Were parts debriefed?

Answer 11

Parts were debriefed and gave written consent for their data to be used

Question 12

Results of the 138 parts surveyed

Answer 12

3. 6% believed they would obey
4. 5% believed they’d whistle blow
5. 9% disobey

Question 13

Results of the experimental group

Answer 13

76. 5% obeyed
77. 1% disobeyed
78. 4% whistle blew- 6% obeyed by writing a message

Question 14

Results of dispositional factors

Answer 14

None was associated with levels of obedience disobedience or whistle blowing
-Moderate relationship with depth of faith being slightly more likely to whistle blow

Question 15

Conclusions

Answer 15

1) people are very obedient and whistle blowing is uncommon

2) people overestimate the tendency to blow the whistle and underestimate the likelihood of obedience

Question 16

Strengths zq✌🏼

Answer 16

+Lab experiment
+Quantitative Data-easy comparisons
+Ethical-not prodded,no distress, no psychological harm,right to withdraw
+External reliability-precisely replicate and get similar results
+Internal reliability-Parts has similar experience-standardised procedure

Question 17

Weaknesses

Answer 17

• Lab exp-lacks realism
• No qualitative data as to why parts obeyed/disobeyed/whistle blew
• Volunteer sample unrepresentative as most people don’t volunteer
• Undergraduates at a Dutch uni may be unrepresentative of general population & no generalise to other age groups & cultures