milgram

Question 1

milgrams procedure

Answer 1

milgram recurited 40 male partcipants through newspapers adverts, flyers
ad said looking for partcipants on study of memory
particpanst recurited aged between 20-50, jobs ranged from unskilled to rofessional
offered 4.50 to partciapte
payed this on the oset of arriving
learner
true partcioants=teacher
anotherr experimeneter=another confederate, dressed in lab coat, played by actor
partcipanst were told they could elave experiment whenever they wanted
learner strapped in chair and wired with electrodes
teacher required to give elarner an increasingly severre elctirc shock everytime they answered something wrong in learning task

Question 2

findinds of milgrams study

Answer 2

no partcipants stopped below 300 volts
five partcipanst stopped at 300 volts
65% continued to the highest shock level (450 volts)
three of the participants had full blown seizures

milgram asked psychologists students to predict that partcipants behaviour. they estimated that no more than 3% would continue to the highest volts (450 volts)
findinfs were not as expected
all particopnats debreifed and asseured their behaviour was entirely normal

Question 3

conclusion of milgrams study

Answer 3

84% of the participants were glad they took part in teh study
as learnt something about themselves

concluded that German people are not different

american particpnats were willing to obey orders eveb knowning they may inflict harm on another person

Question 4

aim of milgrams study

Answer 4

see whether indicviuals had the ptential to cause harm like the nzis/gemerrans or if they were different

Question 5

wekaness of milgrams study

Answer 5

lakcs population vaility
milgram used a biased ssample of male american volunteers fro a broadly individualist society
therefore, unable to genralise to other populations, particlaury collectivist cultures or to explain behaviour of femals, hard to know wther femalses would responsd in similar way

Question 6

strength of milgram study

Answer 6

supprting replication
Hofling who conducted a study in a hospital
nurses were telephoned by DR smith
who asked them to adminitrate a drug to a patient
order went against hopital regulations in number of ways
1/nurses should not take instructions over a phone
2. instrcutions from unknown doctor
3. dosage of drug was twicd as much as advised on bottle

21 out of 22 nurses did as requested
strength because research demonstrates that obedience to authoirty figures does occur in real life settings