milgram procedure

Question 1

part 1

Answer 1

Volunteers were recruited for a lab experiment Participants were 40 males, aged between 20 and 50.
At the beginning of the experiment they were introduced to another participant, who was actually a confederate of Milgram. They drew straws to determine their roles – learner or teacher – although this was fixed and the confederate was always the learner.
Two rooms were used one for the learner (with an electric chair) and another for the teacher and experimenter with an electric shock generator.
The “learner” was strapped to a chair with electrodes. After he has learned a list of word pairs given him to learn, the “teacher” tests him by naming a word and asking the learner to recall its pair from a list of four possible choices.

Question 2

part 2

Answer 2

The teacher is told to administer an electric shock every time the learner makes a mistake, increasing the level of shock each time. There were 30 switches on the shock generator marked from 15 volts to 450
The learner gave mainly wrong answers (on purpose) and for each of these the teacher gave him an electric shock. When the teacher refused to administer a shock the experimenter was to give a series of prods to ensure they continued. these were
please continue, the experiment requires you to continue, It is absolutely essential that you continue and you have no other choice but to continue.