Milgram, Procedure Flashcards
(2) Participants were recruited by means…
…of newspaper/direct mail advertisement, and were promised £4.50 for turning up to the experiment.
(1) In each experiment there…
…was a teacher (who was a confederate), a learner (who was a confederate) and a teacher (who was the participant.
(3). When they arrived at…
…Yale university they were introduced to a man they thought was another participant (was actually a confederate).
He was described as mild mannered and likeable.
(4) They were told to…
…draw slips to allocate roles, however this was rigged so the participant would always be the teacher.
(5) They were taken to…
…another room and shown the shock generator . The confederate (learner) was then strapped to a chair.
Electrodes were attached to him. Electrode paste was applied.
(6) The teacher (participant) was given a…
…45V shock. He was then taken to another room where he could hear but not see the learner.
(7) The participant was told to read a series of…
…word pairs to the learner. The learner supposedly had to match the correct words together. If the learner got it right, the participant had to move onto the next words. If wrong, participant says right answer and the shock level they would be receiving, and then shocks him.
(8) Each time the learner got an answer wrong…
…the shock level rose in 15V intervals. Learner never actually received any shocks but teacher didnt know that.
(9) Up to 300V…
…the learner does not make any vocal responses to the shocks. At 300V and 315V learner pounded on wall, no other response was heard from him for the rest of the experiment.
(10) No other answers…
…were given for rest of experiment. Teacher told the absence of an answer should be treated as an incorrect answer.
(11) When the teacher protested, given a series of…
…verbal prods encouraging them to continue.
(12) Procedure finished when participant reached…
…450V or refused to carry on.
