Burger Flashcards
Summarise burgers study.
He carried out a face to face Milgram style experiment with the shock level set at 150V. This shock level ensured that PPS did not feel that they had caused serious damage to the learner, thus protecting them from distress. Burger utilised Milgram’s original procedure and prompts and found that 12/40 teachers withdrew by 150V, whereas the remaining 28 carried out the full shock.
They were still deceived despite the stress levels were better than milgrams study.
What was Burgers motive for his study?
He wanted to test this notion; he believed that although society’s cultured & values changed, this would not have a significant effect on obedience.
He wanted to recreate burgers study in a way that adhered more closely to current ethical guidelines and caused minimal distress to PPS.
What was the aim of Burgers study?
To investigate obedience to perceived authority by partially replicating Milgram’s 1963 study to examine whether situational factors affect obedience to authority.
What was the procedure/ method of Burgers study?
-Volunteer sample responding to adverts, PPS paid $50 for taking part.
-Initial screening procedure involving excluding PPS with some knowledge of Milgram’s research & who had suffered trauma.
-PPS also asked about their physical & psychological health 30% excluded.
-2nd phase of screening involved PPS completing a variety of clinical questionnaires.
-PPS also gave info about their age, occupation, educational attainment & ethnicity.
-70 PPS remained: 29 males, 41 females aged 20-81
Describe the experiment 1 baseline condition.
-Very similar to Milgram’s.
-PPS told they could keep the $50 even if they withdrew.
-Experimenter (clinical psychologist) & learner were similar to the confederates in the original study.
-Script similar and confederate had a minor heart problem.
-Sample shock was 15V not 45V.
-Sounds of distress began at 75V.
-At the 150V point the experiment was stopped but researched noted whether the teacher was prepared to continue.
-The experimenter immediately revealed it was fake and both teacher and learner were introduced.
