milgram OG

Question 1

procedure

Answer 1

40 male ppt
20-50 y/o
rigged roles- ppt always teacher
2 confederates- learner and experimenter
15v- 450v
300v- learner pounded wall no response
prods-
please continue/ please go on
the experiment requires you that you continue
it is absolutely essential that you continue
you have no other choice you must go on

Question 2

findings

Answer 2

5 stopped at 300 v
26 continued to 450v
Qualitative data- observations of behaviour eg sweat, tremble, stutter, bite their lip, groan, three had full-blown controllable seizures.
Ppt was debriefed

Question 3

eva list

Answer 3

low internal validity
good external validity
alt explanation- SIT
ethical issues

Question 4

low internal validity

Answer 4

guessed the shocks weren’t real. Milgram didn’t test what he intended to- lacking internal validity. This suggests that ppt responded go demand characteristics
However, another similar study was conducted when ppt would give real shocks to a puppy- 54% of men and 100% of women delivered what they thought was a fatal shock. This suggests that the effects in the Milgram study were genuine because people behaved obediently even when the shocks were real.

Question 5

good external validity

Answer 5

Appear to lack external validity bc lab. But the focus was on the relationship between the authority figure and the ppt. lab study accurately reflects wider authority relationships. Nurse study. 21/22 administered the meds

Question 6

alt explanations of findings

Answer 6

Another limitation is that Milgram’s conclusions about blind obedience may not be justified. The ppt obeyed when the experimenter said the first three prods but at the fourth all disobeyed. According to social identity theory, they identified the experiment with the scientific aims of the research. With the fourth prod they identified more with the victim, when told to obey the authority figure they refused. This shows that SIT may provide a more valid interpretation of Milgram’s findings.

Question 7

ethical issues

Answer 7

Milgram deceived his ppt. allocation was random but it was fixed. Deception of the electric shocks. No fully informed consent. Psycho harm bc they didn’t know what the experiment would involve.