explanations for obedience and ethics, Milgrams

Question 1

who investigated authoritarian personalities?

Answer 1

Adorno 1950

Question 2

how did Adorno establish is someone had a authoritarian personality?

Answer 2

used the F-scale

Question 3

what did Stanley Milgram do?

Answer 3

investigate obedience to see if people would conform because of the situation

Question 4

describe the procedure used in Milgrams study.

Answer 4

-40 volunteer male pp
-aged between 20 and 50
-offered $4.50 to take part
-the learner (a confederate) would be strapped into a chair that was wired to a machine that delivered electric shocks which the teacher (the participant) would control
-they gave the teacher a small shock to showed that it worked but they didnt actually shock the student, they recorded responses that they would play when a shock was delivered.