Milgram

Question 1

Background?

Answer 1

Milgram believed that obedience involved giving up individual judgement in the face of some external social pressure

Question 2

What was the aim of Milgram study?

Answer 2

To see how far people would go in obeying in authority figure, even if it went against their moral code

Question 3

What sampling technique was Milgram study? 

Answer 3

Self selecting

Question 4

What was the sampling milligrams study? 

Answer 4

40 males who were told they were taking part in a study to see the effect of punishment on learning.

Question 5

What was the learner always?

Answer 5

A Confederate 

Question 6

What was the method used?

Answer 6

Laboratory setting

Question 7

Method

Answer 7

The teacher had to give increasingly severe electric shock, ranging from 15 to 450 V each time the learner got a wrong word Pair

Question 8

What happened at 300 V

Answer 8

The learner began to bang on the wall and refused to answer the questions 

Question 9

What happened if the teacher showed reluctance to continue

Answer 9

The experimenter gave a series of verbal prompts to encourage them to continue

Question 10

Results

Answer 10

All participants went to 300 V and 65% went to 450 V

Question 11

Conclusion

Answer 11

People find it difficult to resist someone they are seeing as having authority. Inhumane acts are not only completed by evil people. If the circumstances are right ordinary people are capable of inhumane acts, people obey because of situation or factors and to see themselves as an agent of authority figure.