Burger

Question 1

what year was Burger’s study?

Answer 1

2009

Question 2

what was Burger’s aim?

Answer 2

to replicate Milgram’s study but rid the ethical issues from the experiment
wanted to see if people would obey 46 years later

Question 3

What did Burger do before he conducted the experiments?

Answer 3

Psychological tests

• Interpersonal reactivity index
• Beck anxiety inventory
• Desimbility of control scale
• interviews with clinical psychologists
• Beck depression inventory

Question 4

How many participants were excluded overall?

Answer 4

68.2%

Question 5

How many people were excluded by psychologists?

Answer 5

47 (38.2%)

Question 6

How many people were excluded after the screening?

Answer 6

30%

Question 7

where was the study conducted?

Answer 7

Miami

Question 8

What was the Base condition?

Answer 8

same procedure as Milgram’s 1963 experiment except voltages are lower (150V is the max & sample shock is only 15V)
same prompts and same mr Wallace speech

Question 9

What ethical improvements were there?

Answer 9

ppts told they could withdraw at least 3 times and twice on paper
shocks weren’t s radical
experimenter was a clinical psychologist (competence)
experimenter told to stop if any signs of stress were shown by and ppts

Question 10

In the screening how many were questions were asked?

Answer 10

6

Question 11

what was the model refusal condition?

Answer 11

2 confederate- teacher and learner
participant was another teacher (2)
rigged draw meant confederate had to go first at shocking learner
teacher 1 paused at 90V- ‘couldn’t go on then prompted to go on
teacher 1 pushed table and asked ppt to carry on for him

Question 12

what did burger conclude?

Answer 12

obedience level was similar to milgram’s experiment even though society has changed

Question 13

results of burger’s experiment

Answer 13

BASE- before 150V- male= 6 female=6
after 150V- male=12 female=16
MODELLED REFUSAL- before 150V- male=5 female=6
after 150V- male=6 female=13
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Question 14

Evaluating Burger

Answer 14

G- wide range of ages
-not androcentric
-sample size larger but uneven
- ethnocentric
R- standardised procedure- easy to repeat evident by Burger
A- not comparable to reality- electric shocks
V- not ecologically valid (lab experiment)
- internally valid
E- right to withdraw shown
-competence- clinical psychologist
-sample shock were low