Burger (contemporary) Flashcards
What where burgers aims
Whether obedience is affected by -gender
-Personality traits (empathetic concern, desire for personal control)
Procedure: was it a lab or field experiment
Lab experiment
Procedure: how many participants where there and how many where men and women
70 participants
29 men
41 women
Procedure: what what’s the mean age for the participants
42.9
Procedure: what group design was it
Independent measures design
Procedure: what did the study replicate and what was different with this experiment
It replicated milgrams study
Except it had 6 ethical safeguards to protect the participants
Procedure: what where the ethical safeguards
- burger stopped shocks at 150V instead of 450V as 79% of people who went to 150 went to 450 (this avoided high levels of anxiety)
- 2 step screening process excludes those who might have a negative reaction to the experiment
- 3 reminders to the right to withdraw (2 in writing)
- real 15V shock was given to the participant at the start compared with milgrams 45V
- participants debriefed immediately after the experiment
- clinical psychologist supervised all the trials and was allowed to end the trial if anyone seemed excessively distressed
Procedure: what where self report questionnaires used to measure
Empathetic concern (feeling sympathy and compassion for unfortunate others)
Desire for personal control (how motivated a person is to see themselves in control of events In their lives)
When did this study take place
2009
Results: what did burger find that was slightly different to milgram
Obidience rate was slightly lower then when milgram did his study 45 years earlier
70% presses the 150V button compared to 82.5% in milgram
Results: was there a difference in obedience rates between men and women
No significant difference but women were slightly more likely to push the 150V
Men - 66.7%
Women - 72.7%
