Milgram

Question 0

Aim

Answer 0

To test obedience when obedience means causing others harm and breaking morals.

Question 1

Method- participants etc

Answer 1

Lab experiment
40 Males 
News ad volunteers 
$5
Yale Uni

Question 2

Method-

Answer 2

Mr Wallace- learner
Participants teacher randomly
See him strapped to chair
Memory/ punishment task
If Mr Wallace is wrong- shock (labelled)
Learner scream, and they are urged to were told to go on

Question 3

Results

Answer 3

All to 300 volts
65% to 450 (me Wallace appears dead)
Didn’t feel could stop experiment
Protested/ wept

Question 4

Conclusion

Answer 4

Shows power of authority over our behaviour

Question 5

Evaluation generalisability

Answer 5

Only 40
All men
One country- universal
One type of person

Question 6

Evaluation reliability

Answer 6

Lab experiment, controls eg Same instructions, recording etc reliable same if did it again, most participants went to same level.

Question 7

Evaluation- applicability

Answer 7

Understands more about behaviour
eg Germans following hitler, schools and prisons
How Americans obey in highly controlled situation with person of authority- lab coat uni etc.

Question 8

Evaluation- validity

Answer 8

Not high- Eco, artificial unnatural environment of Yale uni, act diff
Task- unnatural
Not measuring normal realistic behaviour- invalid
Face- good

Question 9

Evaluation- Ethics

Answer 9

Deception- fake shocks, fake learner 
Consent- not fully informed, were debriefed- necessary 
Right to withdraw
Kept anonymous 
Offered counselling

Question 10

Variation

Answer 10

Run down office block- 47.5%

Rebellious fellow participants- 15%