MILGRAM Flashcards
What is Milgrams study about?
The behavioural study of obedience
What did Milgram believe to happen for obedience?
‘obedience involved the abdication(giving up) of individual judgement in the face of some external social pressure’.
What does Milgram argue?
That when we obey we enter an agentic state.
What was Milgrams aim?
To see how far people would go in obeying an authority figure, even if the command went against their moral code.
IV
there wasn’t one
it was a controlled observation
Where?What?
Lab setting
Yale Uni
The observations made. Who?Where?
By the researcher in the same room as the participant
Other researchers watched through one-way mirrors.
How was the sample gathered?
What did it ask?
Self-selected sampling technique.
Ad in local newspaper direct mail solicitation
Participants to take part in a study on memory and learning. Not Obedience
Who were the participants?
40 males, aged between 20 and 50 years from new Haven area
Materials?
Hint: 3
Electric shock dummy generator
recording of predetermined learner responses
list of word pairs to test the learner
