Milgram Flashcards

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Milgrams key theme + area

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Key theme = responses to people in authority
Area = social area

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Aim

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To investigate the tendency for destructive obedience

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Context

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In relation as to why German soldiers followed hitler.

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Method

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40 male volunteers told they were asking part in a learning experiment. They took role of teacher + confederate took role of learner (rigged that way). Teacher giving what they thought were painful shocks to confederate whom they believed to be a ppt too. Shocks increased 15v for every wrong answer and went to a max of 450v.
At 300v learner banged on wall c begged. After they went silent

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Standardised prompts

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  1. “Please continue”
  2. “The experiment requires you to continue”
  3. “ it is absolutely essential that you continue”
  4. “ you have no other choice to continue”
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Results

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100% of ppts went up to 300v
65% gave full 450v
Most ppts showed signs of stress when giving shocks = sweating, breakdowns, asking for reassurance, seizures

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Conclusion

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People are surprisingly obedient to orders given by people in authority. However become distressed when obeying orders to hurt another person

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Usefulness

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Useful as it created a change in attitudes about factors causing wars, not disposition of people that cause wars but obedience to authority

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Ethics

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Debriefed but after, caused psychological + physical harm

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Ecological validity

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Low as rare that you’d be giving someone shocks for answering a question wrong. But ppts showed higher demand characteristics due to prestigious nature of Yale

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Generalisability

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Low as all were men, similar ages, all from north east America

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Reliability

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Highly replicable as it was standardised

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