Milgram

Question 1

Specific aim

Answer 1

To see how large an electric shock a participant would give to a helpless man when ordered to by a scientist in his lab.

Question 2

Overall aim

Answer 2

Investigate how obedient people would be to orders from a person in authority that would result in pain and harm to others.

Question 3

Learner

Answer 3

Mr. Wallace, 47yo, Irish American accountant. LIKABLE

Question 4

Experimenter

Answer 4

GRAY lab coat, 31 biology teacher

Question 5

Sample

Answer 5

40 people, 39 completed one seized and went to the hospital. 14/39 DID NOT go to 450

Question 6

2 signs of tension

Answer 6

sweat, stutter, seize.

Question 7

When does Mr Wallace start screaming?

Answer 7

300-315 volts.

Question 8

When did he be quiet?

Answer 8

330 volts.

Question 9

What does the experimenter ask of the participant?

Answer 9

Please continue.
The experiment requires you to continue.

Question 10

What was being measured?

Answer 10

The % of participants who went to each voltage level.

Question 11

Where was the ad advertized? Sample

Answer 11

Newspaper, New Haven Connecticut area.
All men.
Unskilled workers, white collar, and professionals.

Question 12

Qualitative data?

Answer 12

volunteer sample

Question 13

Quantitative data?

Answer 13

Reportings of individuals.

Question 14

RESULTS!!!!!!

Answer 14

ALL participants at least to 300 volts.
65% the participants went to 460 volts.
Mean of pain was 13.42 out of 14.

Question 15

Comments made?

Answer 15

Ill hurt his heart.
I’m gonna chicken out.
I cant do that to a man.

Question 16

CONCLUSIONS!!!!!

Answer 16

People find the experiencing of getting and obeying destructive orders highly stressful.

Individuals are dar more obedient to authority then expected.

Question 17

APPLICATION TO EVERYDAY LIFE!!!!!

Answer 17

War crimes, explains holocaust causing a genocide.

Question 18

Individual

Answer 18

Wide range of jobs to make sure individual factors wouldn’t play a role in the obedience rules.

Question 19

Situational

Answer 19

Participants’ situation, prestigious setting and an experimenter behind them could explain the obedience rates observed.