MILGRAM

Question 1

What was Milgram interested in?

Answer 1

Why the German population had followed the orders of Hitler and murdered 6 million Jews

Question 2

What did Milgram think about the German population?

Answer 2

Germans were different from other people in other countries- perhaps being more obedient- known as dispositional explanation of obedience

Question 3

What was Milgram’s aim?

Answer 3

Interested in researching how far people would go to obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person

Question 4

What is the definition of obedience?

Answer 4

Social influence from a person in power/authorty

Question 5

What does social influence cause a person to do?

Answer 5

Act in response to an order given by another person

Question 6

What is the experimenter also known as?

Answer 6

The confederate

Question 7

What was the confederate dressed in?

Answer 7

A grey lab coat

Question 8

What was the learners name?

Answer 8

Mr Wallace

Question 9

What did Mr Wallace have to learn?

Answer 9

A list of word pairs

Question 10

Who could administer the electric shocks?

Answer 10

The teacher

Question 11

What nationality were the men tested?

Answer 11

American

Question 12

How many men took part?

Answer 12

40

Question 13

What university were the men from?

Answer 13

Yale

Question 14

What ages were they from?

Answer 14

20-50

Question 15

Did they all have the same jobs?

Answer 15

No- some were unskilled, some were skilled

Question 16

How much were the men paid just for turning up?

Answer 16

4.50

Question 17

Who was the genuine participant?

Answer 17

The teacher

Question 18

What were some of the prods used?

Answer 18

Please continue
The experiment requires you to continue
It is absolutely essential that you continue
You have no choice but to continue

Question 19

How many people went up to 450V?

Answer 19

65%

Question 20

How many went up to 300V?

Answer 20

100%

Question 21

What was some of the PPTS behaviour?

Answer 21

Sweating
Trembling
Stuttering
Biting their lips

Question 22

How much went up to 300V/

Answer 22

100%

Question 23

How much went up to 450V?

Answer 23

65%

Question 24

Proximity?

Answer 24

When the teacher and learner were in the same room, obedience dropped from 65% down to 40%
When teacher had to force learners hand onto the shock plate, obedience dropped from 65% down to 30%

Question 25

Uniform?

Answer 25

Grey lab coat (65%) down to ordinary attire (20%)

Question 26

Location?

Answer 26

From laboratories in Yale university to run-down office buildings (48%)

Question 27

Ethical issues?

Answer 27

Lack of protection from harm
3 had seizures
Milgram debriefed the PPTS afterwards
He followed up with them a year later

Question 28

Deception?

Answer 28

They thought they were taking part in a study between memory and learning not obedience to an authority figure
Believed they were giving real shocks
Milgram gave them a questionnaire afterwards and 84% said they were happy with the experiment to have participated