Milgram's Procedure/Obedience Flashcards
what is obedience?
an individual follows a direct order to a person issuing the order usually a figure of authority who has the power to punish when obedience behaviour not forth coming
what was the aim of Milgrams study?
to see if the germans where different from other cultures
how many ppt were invlolded in milgrams study and where were they from/gender?
40 americain men
milgram got his sample through what?
volunteer sample
where did the study take place?(what uni)
yale uni
the ppts were introduced to the who and what were they wearing?
the experimenter who was wearing a white lab coat
they ppts wear also introduced to Mr who?
what was he?
Mr Wallace
he was a confederate, and the ppts thought he was was one too
how were they allocated the roles of learner and teacher?
a rigged draw took place to allocate roles to ppt of learner and teacher, the ppt was always the teacher whilst Mr Wallace was always the learner
the teacher saw the the learner get strapped to what?
a chair with an electric shock apparatus
teacher was given a mild what? and why?
teacher was given a mild shock to prove that the machines were real
what was the task set for the teachers and learners?
teacher was to read out matching pairs of words and the learner had to give a corresponding pair to the words
teacher had to give the learner what if they got the answer wrong?
a shock
the shock started at what measurement?
15 volts
the shocks went up in what increments ? and went all the way up to ?
15 increments
450V
leaner acted as if the shocks were what?
were real
at 300v, the learner started doing what?
banding on the door and pleading the teacher to stop
through the use of what standardised prompts, by experimenter?
(give an example of the two)
‘the experiments requires you to continue’
‘you have no choice but to continue’
what was recorded on a scale?
recorder how far up the scale of electric shocks the ppts would go
what was the result of Milgram’s study?
His results were so surprising and showed that we all appear to be obedient to authority
conclusions: said it was due to what
and we are agents if those with what?
it was due to agentic state and that we are all agents to legitimacy of authority
conclusions: more likely to obey who?
a person who has a higher position or status in a social hierarchy
conclusions: the experimenter wore what that they gave him legitimacy of authority?
white lab coat
what were the three main issues with milgram’s study?
deception they were told it was test on memory.
lacks population validity cant be applied to everyone only based on 40 men who are americain
volunteer sample this me
