Migrams study on destructive obedience

Question 1

Think about the title, the religon, and two hypothesis.

What are the key areas of context in milgrams study?

Answer 1

• Destructive obedience
• Milgram was Jewish left europe to go to america would have been affected by the nazi atcions
• dispositional hypthosis
• situational hypothesis

Destructive obedience- following orders to iinflict harm on others
Dispositional hypthosis- the idea that somthing to do with germans made them natrually obedient
Situational hypthosis-Things that happen socially or in the enviroment that impact peoples obedience

Question 2

Think about students and predictions

Before the main procedure what did milgram do?

Answer 2

• Told psychology students about the study and told them to make an estimate on how many people they thought would obey

Question 3

On average what was teh estimated percantge that the psyhcology student thought would obey?

Answer 3

1.2%

Question 4

What was the aim of the study?

Answer 4

• How obedient people would be to a person of authority when being told to inlict harm to anothe rthrough electric shocks.
• How large an electric shock participants would give to a helpless man when ordered to by a scientist in his own labtory.

Question 5

What did milgram describe his study as?

Answer 5

Labtory experment

Better seen as a pre- expermeint as it only has only one condition

Question 6

What was the DV?

Answer 6

Obedience

Maximum voltage given in response to the orders given

Question 7

How many particpants were there and what was the age range and gender?

Answer 7

40 male particpants aged between 20-50