Milgram Flashcards
What are the 3 types of obedience?
conformity- going along with what someone in authority wants but not because of a direct order
compliance- following an order but you don’t agree with it
internalised- going along with an instruction and coming to believe in what you’re doing
What was the aim of Milgrams study
to establish a baseline measure of how obedient naive participants would be when ordered to administer increasingly intense electric shocks to an innocent victim
what was Milgrams sample?
40 males
how did Milgram get his sample?
he put a letter out in the newspapers- self selected sample
how did they convince the participants the test was real?
they gave them a shock of 45 volts at the start so they understand the pain the “learner” was going to be in
in Milgrams study, how was the set up planned out?
the experimenter and participant were in one room and the learner was in a separate room by themselves
In milgrams study, how many volts did the teacher go up in at a time?
15 volts
in milgrams study, how many volts did it take for the learner to start panicking?
300 volts, he began to bang on the wall
in milgrams study, at how many volts did the participant stop making noise?
300 volts
in milgrams study, what were the prompts the experimenter used?
please continue
you are required to continue
it is essential that you continue
you have no choice you have to continue
in milgrams study, how many participants went up to 300 volts?
all 40 of them
in milgrams study, what percentage of the men went up to 450 volts?
60%
in milgrams study, what behaviurs did the participants begin to show after shocking the leaner over 300 volts?
sweating
stuttering
in milgrams study, why did the participants become distressed?
moral strain
what was milgrams conclusion?
obedience come down to situational factors
