Milgram

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To investigate if obedeint American citizens would obey unjust orders from an authority figure and inflict pain on another innocnet person

Question 2

Method

Answer 2

Laboratory experiment

Controlled observation

Question 3

IV

Answer 3

The prods used by teh experimenter

Question 4

DV

Answer 4

Participants degree of obedience

Question 5

Partipants

Answer 5

40 New Haven men aged between 40-50 yr olds

Question 6

Recruitment

Answer 6

Via volunteer sampling, with an adevert in a local newspaper to get participants to partipate in an experiment based on punichsment and learning

Question 7

Rewards

Answer 7

They were given $4.50 for tehir time

Question 8

Materials

Answer 8

Voltage box

Adjacent room, where the learner

Question 9

Where did they meet?

Answer 9

The 40 male partipants meet in a laboratory at Yale univeristy wheere they met teh experimenter as well as another learner, Mr Wallace, tehy were both confederates

Question 10

What did teh exeperimenter explain?

Answer 10

He explianed that one person would be the teacher and another the learner., However the real partipant was always teh teacher and the actor would always be learner

Question 11

What did teh teacher have to do?

Answer 11

The teacher hasd to read a list of word pairs to the learner and test tehri recall
If teh learner got iot wrong then the teacher had to administer an electric shock on the learner which icnraeses in 15 increements every time they got it wrong

Question 12

How did the learner giev tehri answer?

Answer 12

They indicated tehir answer using a system of lights and their answers were pre determined

Question 13

How did teh partipant know that the experiment is real?

Answer 13

The participant watched teh learner being strapped down to a chair. They were also given a sample shock

Question 14

How did teh learner react to teh shock?

Answer 14

As teh voltage increase,. the learners screams fot louder and more dramatic.
At 180v, the learner complained of a weak heart
At 300v the learner banged on teh walls and demanded to leave
At 315V he was silent, giving teh illusion that he was dead/unconcious

Question 15

How did the experimeter keep the techer in teh experiment?

Answer 15

The experiment continued until the teacher refused to continue, or 450 volts was reached. If the teacher tried to stop the experiment, the experimenter would respond with a series of prods, for example: ‘The experiment requires that you continue.’ Following the experiment the participants were debriefed.

Question 16

Results

Answer 16

Milgram found that all of the real participants went to at least 300 volts and 65% continued until the full 450 volts. He concluded that under the right circumstances ordinary people will obey unjust orders.

Question 17

Debrief

Answer 17

Interviewed partipants
Met with learner
told true aim of teh experiment

Question 18

Conclusion

Answer 18

The experiment took place in a prestigous univeristy which might have intimidated teh partipants
The learner had volunetered and teh partipant thought that they would be in the learners position
They were told teh shocks werent dangerous