Milgram (1963)

Question 1

What was milgram (1963) aim?

Answer 1

Milgram (1963) was interested on researching on how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming other people

Question 2

What was milgrams method?

Answer 2

• Two rooms in a Yale lab were used, one for learner (with electric chair) and one for teacher and experimenter with an electric shock generator
• The learner, is strapped to electric chair, after he has learned a list of word pairs given to him, the teacher tests him by naming a word and asking the learner to recall its partner
• the teacher is told to administer an electric shock every time the learner makes a mistake, increasing the voltage each time
• Voltage ranged from 15 volts to 4500

Question 3

Milgrams method part 2?

Answer 3

The learner gave intentionally wrong answers, when the teacher refused to administer the electric shock, the experimenter issued a series of prods

1- please continue
2- the experiment requires u to continue
3- is it absolutely essential that u continue
4- you have no other choice but to continue

Question 4

What was the results of milgrams study?

Answer 4

-65% of participants continued to 450 volts, all participants continues to 300 volts