Milgram Flashcards

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1
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What is the meaning of obedience?

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Following a direct order.

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What is the meaning of compliance?

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Going along with what someone want you to do

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What is conformity?

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Behaving in the same way as those around you

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4
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What is Destructive obedience?

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Following in order to harm someone

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5
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What is the meaning of genocide?

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The systematic attempt to wipe out and ethnic group

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What is dispositional hypothesis?

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Explanations that focus on the individuals involved in social situation

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What is the situation hypothesis?

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IExplanations that focus on the situation itself

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What is a sampling method

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The way that people in the sample were selected

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What is a sample?

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The group of people who took part in the study

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10
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What percentage did the psychology students predict people would obey ?

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1.2%

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What was the real aim of Milgram study

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To investigate what level of obedience will be shown when participants are told by an authority figure to a minister electric shocks to another person

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12
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What was the stated aim of Milgram study?

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To study the effects of punishment on learning

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13
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What was the DVD of Milgram study

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Obedience rates

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Describe the sample of Milgram study

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  • self selected
  • 40 males aged 20-50, from various backgrounds
  • Paid £4.50
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What is the key theme of Milgram study?

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Responses to people in authority

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16
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Give examples of qualitative data from Milgram study

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  • Nervous giggles
  • sweating
  • shaking
  • shouting
  • at least one had a seizure
17
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Give the quantitative results of Milgram study

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  • 65% went all the way to 400 V

- 100% went all the way to 300 V

18
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What was the baseline of Milgram study?

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1.2%

19
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What Ethical guidelines did Milgram break?

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  • Informed consent
  • protection of participants
  • right to withdraw
20
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How did Milgram Break the guideline of informed consent?

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Participants were unaware of the real aim of the study

21
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How did Milgram breakThe ethical guidelines of protection of the participant

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We can see from the quantitive data that the participants were caused distress

22
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How did Milgram break the ethical guideline of right to withdraw?

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Participants felt with the money, products, and volunteering that they couldn’t withdraw

23
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Why did Milgram break the ethical guidelines of informed consent?

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To avoid demand characteristics

24
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Why did Milgram break the ethical guideline protection of participants?

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They were short-term effects, he didn’t expect it, it was important to try prevent atrocities