L5 - Milgram

Question 1

Describe obedience

Answer 1

Behaving as instructed by an authority figure who has power/status over others

Question 2

How many participants?

Answer 2

40

Question 3

Experiment was set up so that

Answer 3

Participants were always the teacher and Mr Wallace was the learner

Question 4

Mr Wallace and the experimenter were

Answer 4

Confederates

Question 5

What happened after being assigned teacher or learner?

Answer 5

Mr Wallace was hooked to an ‘electric shock machine’ (fake shocks)
Participants were told to shock him when he got an answer for the task wrong

Question 6

Maximum voltage?

Answer 6

450

Question 7

Experimenter said what when participants asked to leave?

Answer 7

Please continue

You have no choice, you must continue

Question 8

How many gave shocks up to 300V?

Answer 8

100%

Question 9

How many gave maximum shocks?

Answer 9

65%

Question 10

Behavioural observations of participants?

Answer 10

Sweating

Trembling

Question 11

Advantage?

Answer 11

Good cost-benefit analysis
Harm the study causes outweighs valuable knowledge it provided
Know most people would do the same

Question 12

Limitations related to ethics?

Answer 12

Psychological harm
Some thought they killed Mr Wallace
Traumatic

Question 13

Limitation related to gender?

Answer 13

All white American men
Gender bias (beta)
Culture bias
Unrepresentative