Milgram Flashcards
Auschwitz killed an awful how many Jewish people daily?
12,000
Adolf Eichmann was..
The man who came up with the final solution (Killing Jewish people)
Hannah Adrendt said…
Adolf Eichmann was just an ordinary man
Adolf Eichmann claimed…
He was just following orders
People claimed after the second world war..
The Germans are just different!
Milgram Aimed…
To investigate the level of obedience that would be shown when told by an authority figure to inflict pain on another person
The study took place in…
Yale University
Describe the shock box
It went up in 15 volts from 15 to 450 volts
At 300 volts…
Mr Wallace pounded on the wall and then fell silent
The participants were…
between 20 and 50, from New Haven and Male
How many people went up to 450 volts
65%
12.5% dropped out at…
300 volts
Participants showed signs of…
Sweating, trembling, stuttering, lip biting, crying and digging nails into hands
How many showed signs of nervous laughter?
14
3 had…
Uncontrollable seizures
