Milgram

Question 1

Who was Milgram’s supervisor?

Answer 1

Allport

Question 2

Who was Milgram a research assistant to?

Answer 2

Asch

Question 3

What did Milgram replicate?

Answer 3

Asch paradigm with
• … different cultures,
• … different groups
• … procedural modifications

Question 4

Who reported on the Eichmann trial?

Answer 4

Hannah Arendt

Question 5

Who were the participants in Milgram’s study?

Answer 5

Normal people from New Haven area around Yale to take part in a ‘study of memory’

Question 6

How many participants did experts predict will go to 450v

Answer 6

1 in 1000

Question 7

What were the four prods?

Answer 7

• Please continue.
• The experiment requires that you continue.
• It is absolutely essential that you continue.
• You have no other choice, you must go on.

Question 8

How was their deception?

Answer 8

• confederate learner
• fake shocks
• pre-determined objections from learner

Question 9

What were the additional prods?

Answer 9

• Although the shocks may be painful, there is no permanent tissue damage, so please go on
• Whether the learner likes it or not, you must go on until he has learned all the word pairs correctly, so please go on.

Question 10

How many times was the basic study replicated?

Answer 10

24 times

Question 11

What is the modal finding of Milgram?

Answer 11

65% go to 450v

Question 12

What did Bettelheim call the research?

Answer 12

‘… so vile that nothing these experiments show has any value’

Question 13

How many of Milgram’s participants had a seizure?

Answer 13

3/40

Question 14

How many of Milgram’s participants showed random laughter

Answer 14

14/40

Question 15

How many people disobeyed when the experimenter said ‘you have no other choice you must continue’

Answer 15

100% (Burger)

Question 16

What key features did Milgram identify?

Answer 16

• readiness to relinquish responsibility
• entering ‘the agentic state’
• concentric fields of influence

Question 17

Which features of the stufy did Blass point to that help understand larger scale events?

Answer 17

Self-consistency and incremental steps

Question 18

Which theories can explain the study’s results?

Answer 18

Social impact and social identity

Question 19

How does social impact theory (Latane) explain the study?

Answer 19

We are influenced by authority figures (obey them) as a function of their…
• Strength (status or prestige)
• Immediacy
• Number

Question 20

How does social identity theory explain the study (Turner)?

Answer 20

We are influenced by authority figures (obey them) to the extent that
• we identify with the group they represent (e.g. science/scientist)
We are influenced by their instructions to harm others to the extent that
• we don’t identify with those others
 “Engaged Followership” (Haslam et al., 2014; Reicher et al., 2012)

Question 21

Who came up with engaged followship?

Answer 21

Haslam

Question 22

At what voltage did the participant say ‘My hearts starting to bother me’

Answer 22

150v

Question 23

How many participants left at 150v

Answer 23

6

Question 24

Where has Milgram informed debate?

Answer 24

theology, ethics, management, law, history…

Question 25

What did Arendt phrase Eichman as?

Answer 25

banality of evil

Question 26

What was the lethal shock labelled as?

Answer 26

XXX

Question 27

WHen does the learner stop responding?

Answer 27

330v

Question 28

How many of Milgrams participants went to 450v?

Answer 28

65%

Question 29

What is agentic shift

Answer 29

shift from acting in terms of ones own ppurposes to acting as an agent for someone else