Milgram - Obedience Shock Experiment Flashcards

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Who conducted the Obedience Shock Experiments?

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Stanley Milgram

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What was the aim?

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To investigate the level of obedience participants show to an authority figure which instructed them to deliver electric shocks to anothe person

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What were the results?

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65% of participants delivered maximum shock

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Significance of Experiment

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Provides evidence of influence of situational factors over dispositional factors on behaviour

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Strength of Experiment

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Experiment replicated multiple times and yielded similar reults

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Weakness of Experiment

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Low ecological validity - experiement conducted in a laboratory

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Ethical Concerns

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Psychological Harm - participanjts were not proctected from stress and emotional harm

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