Milgram

Question 1

Particpant number in Milgram’s study

Answer 1

40

Question 2

Participant age range in Milgram’s study

Answer 2

20-50

Question 3

Name of “learner”

Answer 3

Mr Wallace

Question 4

Obedience rate of the original experiment

Answer 4

62%

Question 5

At ______ volts the learner protested

Answer 5

150

Question 6

From _____ volts the learner no longer reacted

Answer 6

330

Question 7

40% in relation to Milgram…?

Answer 7

The rate of conformity when the researcher attempted to physically force the hand of the participant

Question 8

The conformity rate dropped again when Milgram held the

Answer 8

Experiment in an empty office block instead of the psychology department at Yale University

Question 9

What conclusion was drawn when the conformity was lower in the office block?

Answer 9

The location delegitimised the authority of the researcher

Question 10

What are the three variations?

Answer 10

• Proximity
• location
• hand being forced to electrocute the learner
  . And Bickman could be seen as evidence for the codification of the researcher’s uniform.

Question 11

Bickman found

Answer 11

19% - pedestrian
13% - milkman
30% - security guard

Question 12

Gameson posed another interpretation of why Milgram’s participants obeyed, what was it?

Answer 12

He posed that they socially identified more with the figure of authority, as they also were granted authority over the learner. In order to please this other authority and forfil there own roles they obeyed. Social identification theory.

Question 13

Social identification theory better explains the case of

Answer 13

Adolf Eichman and other nazis. They were ideologically aligned with their party and so would’ve identified with those giving orders. They weren’t altogether just submissive.