Milgram- responses to people in authority

Question 1

Background

Question 2

Aim

Answer 2

investigate levels of obedience to authority

Question 3

Participants

Answer 3

male volunteers
volunteer/self selected-newspaper
Yale university
age 20-50 from New Haven
$4.50 for participation
research method was a controlled observation

Question 4

Procedure

Answer 4

-p’s arrived at Yale, allocated teacher role, or confederate (learner), slip of paper was rigged was always the teacher
-taken to adjoining room and learner was strapped to an electric chair
-p’s (teacher) received a sample shock (45 volts)
-task- p’s read series of words pairs to learner, learner has to say which word was originally paired wrong answer=shock
- voltage increased by 15 volts each time
- up to 450 volts and then the XXX switch
-learner gave no response up to 300V
- At 300V the learner pounded on the wall and then stops answering
-p’s told to treat no answer as wrong
-ponding repeats at 315V then not heard from
-prods given e.g
-please continue
-p’s interviewed after, measures taken to ensure they left in the same condition
- most showed nervousness (sweat, tremble)
one p had a seizure

Question 5

results

Answer 5

-14ps defied expeimnet
-all p’s give shocks up to 300V
-29/40 gave shocks of 345V
-65% gave shocks of 450V all the way

Question 6

conclusions

Answer 6

-people are more obedient to destructive orders
-people are stressed from receiving and obeying destructive orders