Milgram's Obedience Study

Question 1

Where was the study done?

Answer 1

Yale University

Question 2

How many participants partook?

Answer 2

40, all males

Question 3

How were ‘teacher’ and ‘learner’ roles allocated?

Answer 3

the teachers were the naive volunteers

Question 4

What was the maximum shock level?

Answer 4

450 volts

Question 5

What level of volts did 100% of participants go up to?

Answer 5

300 V

Question 6

What % of the participants went all the way to the end of the shock generator?

Answer 6

65%

Question 7

What 3 ethical issues were involved in Milgram’s experiment?

Answer 7

• informed consent
• right to withdraw
• psychological harm

Question 8

What were Milgram’s 4 variations?

Answer 8

• proximity of experimenter to teacher
• proximity of teacher to learner
• location
• uniform

Question 9

How did Milgram decrease the proximity of experimenter to teacher?

Answer 9

the instructions were given over telephone

Question 10

How did Milgram decrease the proximity of teacher to learner?

Answer 10

they were put in the same room

Question 11

How did Milgram reduce the validity of the location?

Answer 11

held the study in a run down office building instead of Yale University

Question 12

How did Milgram reduce the validity of the uniform?

Answer 12

the experimenter wore every day clothes instead of a grey lab coat

Question 13

Why is legitimacy important in the location and unform

Answer 13

legitimacy assumes a position of power

Question 14

What was the effect on obedience of the instructions being given by telephone (proximity of experimenter to teacher)?

Answer 14

20.5%

Question 15

What was the effect on obedience of the teacher and learner being put in the same room as each other?

Answer 15

40%

Question 16

What was the effect on obedience of the study being conducted in a run down office building?

Answer 16

47.5%

Question 17

What was the effect on obedience of the experimenter wearing every day clothes?

Answer 17

20%

Question 18

What was the effect on obedience of the teacher being instructed to hold the learners hand on a shock plate?

Answer 18

30%

Question 19

Why did obedience reduce when the experimenter gave the teacher instructions over the phone?

Answer 19

the authority of the experimenter diminished

Question 20

Give an example of legitimate authority?

Answer 20

if the police asked you to leave the park then you would obey, but you might ignore a member of the public

Question 21

What is the agentic state?

Answer 21

an individual gives up their autonomy and moral responsibility to an authority figure, this occurs when the individual is stripped of any responsibility