Milgram

Question 1

What are the aims of milgrams study?

Answer 1

To test the levels of obedience that ppts would reach when told to give electric shocks. To test whether obedience has a dispositional explanation ( a person is more likely to obey, e.g. German soldiers) or whether there are situational reasons for obedience

Question 2

Where was milgrams baseline study conducted?

Answer 2

Yale University

Question 3

Describe the participants of milgrams study? Sample?

Answer 3

40 male volunteers each paid £4 for their service. The sample was a volunteer sample and participants applied through a newspaper advertisement

Question 4

Describe the procedure of milgrams study?

Answer 4

Confederate was ‘learner’ in a supposed memory test
Ppts was the teacher
Was told to give electric shocks of increasing severity as learner kept making mistakes in a word association task
Small shock to “Mr.Wallace” who is in fact a confederate to ensure that they think the shocks are real
Ppts faced a shock generator and thought they were giving real electric shocks, four verbal prods were given.
Standardised responses from “Mr.Wallace” e.g. the learner bangs on wall at 300v in the verbal feedback condition “mr.wallace” makes certain comments such as “get me out”

Question 5

What are the results of milgrams study?

Answer 5

Quantitative 100% ppts gave 300v, 65% ppt gave the highest 450v, many ppts showed distress

Question 6

What are the conclusions of milgrams study?

Answer 6

Volunteers were willing to shock another person simply because they were told to by someone in authority even when uncomfortable about doing so, therefore, Germans did not have a different disposition which led to them obeying

Question 7

Generalisably points Milgram

Answer 7

Volunteer sample- people who read new haven newspaper, this might mean that people with same personality characteristics might have applied
All men
Included a range of individuals in terms of occupations and socioeconomic status

Question 8

Reliability points Milgram

Answer 8

The study is highly standardised e.g milgram included standardised prompts
Good internal reliability as it was very controlled
Test of time burger
That said ecological validity poor

Question 9

Application Milgram

Answer 9

Holocaust

Question 10

Validity Milgram

Answer 10

Contrived settings
Ppts may have guessed the aim of the study could be more obedient cause they realise the study is not real
The task of electricuting a person lacks mundane realism
That said supported by holfing field experiment