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This study belongs to what area?

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The social area

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What is the background of the study?

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The big moral question of the 20th century was the horrors of the Second World War. During the Nazi regime in Germany, the government initiated a policy of extermination of ‘worthless’ ethnic groups.

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What was the aims of the study?

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  • Are Germans different?
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What was the research method?

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A controlled observation

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5
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What was the IV?

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There’s was no IV

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What was the DV?

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Whether the participant went up to 450V. 450V was said to be ‘complete obedience’

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What was the sample?

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40 male participants aged between 20 and 50 years.

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Where did this study take place?

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USA- Yale university (laboratory)

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9
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What was the sampling technique?

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Self-Selected

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10
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The participants always had the role of who?

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The ‘teacher’ (who administered the volts)

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Who was the ‘learner’

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The ‘learner’ was the confederate and was called Mr Wallace (a 47 year old, mild-mannered and likeable accountant)

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The participants had a trial sock of how many volts?

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45 volts (to stimulate genuineness)

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What did the participants (the ‘teacher’) do?

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Sat in an adjacent room with an electric shock generator. Then asked the ‘learner’ a paired word test and gave him an electric shock for every wrong answer.

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14
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Describe the electric shock generator?

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The machine had 30 switches ranging from 15-450 volts, in 15 volt increments.

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What happened at 300v?

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The learner pounded on the wall and thereafter made no further replies.

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What happened if the participant asked for advice on whether to proceed?

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The experimenter would reply with a series of standardised prods e.g. “please continue/please go on”

17
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When would the study finish?

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When either the teacher refused to continue (was disobedient/defiant) or reaches 450v (complete obedience)

18
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True or false?

The participants was not debriefed

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False

The participants was fully debriefed

19
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What % went to 300 volts ?

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100%

40/40

20
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What % went to the full 450 volts?

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65%

26/40

21
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Key findings

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  • 26 participants were obedient
  • 14 disobedient/defiant
  • many participants showed signs of extreme stress E.g. sweating, trembling, stuttering, laughing nervously. 3 had full-blown uncontrollable seizures.
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Conclusions

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