Milgram Flashcards
What is the meaning of obedience?
Following a direct order.
What is the meaning of compliance?
Going along with what someone want you to do
What is conformity?
Behaving in the same way as those around you
What is Destructive obedience?
Following in order to harm someone
What is the meaning of genocide?
The systematic attempt to wipe out and ethnic group
What is dispositional hypothesis?
Explanations that focus on the individuals involved in social situation
What is the situation hypothesis?
IExplanations that focus on the situation itself
What is a sampling method
The way that people in the sample were selected
What is a sample?
The group of people who took part in the study
What percentage did the psychology students predict people would obey ?
1.2%
What was the real aim of Milgram study
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
What was the stated aim of Milgram study?
To study the effects of punishment on learning
What was the DVD of Milgram study
Obedience rates
Describe the sample of Milgram study
- self selected
- 40 males aged 20-50, from various backgrounds
- Paid £4.50
What is the key theme of Milgram study?
Responses to people in authority
Give examples of qualitative data from Milgram study
- Nervous giggles
- sweating
- shaking
- shouting
- at least one had a seizure
Give the quantitative results of Milgram study
- 65% went all the way to 400 V
- 100% went all the way to 300 V
What was the baseline of Milgram study?
1.2%
What Ethical guidelines did Milgram break?
- Informed consent
- protection of participants
- right to withdraw
How did Milgram Break the guideline of informed consent?
Participants were unaware of the real aim of the study
How did Milgram breakThe ethical guidelines of protection of the participant
We can see from the quantitive data that the participants were caused distress
How did Milgram break the ethical guideline of right to withdraw?
Participants felt with the money, products, and volunteering that they couldn’t withdraw
Why did Milgram break the ethical guidelines of informed consent?
To avoid demand characteristics
Why did Milgram break the ethical guideline protection of participants?
They were short-term effects, he didn’t expect it, it was important to try prevent atrocities
