milgram's research od obediene

Question 1

what was the aim of milgrams obedience study

Answer 1

to assess obedience in a situation where an authority figure (experimenter) ordered the participant (teacher) to give an increasingly strong shock to a learner located in a different room

Question 2

how many people volunteered

Answer 2

40 american men

Question 3

who where the volunteers introduced to when they arrived

Answer 3

an confederate

Question 4

why did they draw lots

Answer 4

to see who would be the teacher and who would be the learner

Question 5

why was the draw fixed

Answer 5

so the participant was always the teacher

Question 6

what did the authority figure (experimenter) order the participant (teacher) to do

Answer 6

give an increasingly strong shock to a learner in a different room

Question 7

what did milgram conclude about german people

Answer 7

they are not ‘different’

Question 8

what did milgram suspect after his findings

Answer 8

there were certain factors in the siruation that encouraged obedience

Question 9

what’s pne weakness of milgram’s study

Answer 9

low internal validity

Question 10

what did milgram report

Answer 10

75% of his participants believed the shocks were genuine

Question 11

what did martine orne and charles holland argue

Answer 11

participants behaved as they did becuase they didn’t really believe in the set up, so they were ‘play-acting’

Question 12

whos research confirmed orne and hollands arguement

Answer 12

gina perry (2013)

Question 13

what did gina perry find

Answer 13

she listend to all the tapes of milgram’s participants and reported that only about a half of them believed the shocks were real

Question 14

what does gina perry’s findings suggests

Answer 14

the participants may have been responding to demand characteristics, trying to fulfill the aims of the study

Question 15

one strentgh of milgram’s study

Answer 15

findings were replicated in a french documentary that was made about reality TV

Question 16

what did the participants in the ‘game show’ believe

Answer 16

they were contestants for a pilot episode for a new show

Question 17

what were the participants in the game show paid for

Answer 17

to give (fake) electric shocks (ordered by the presenter) to other participants (who were actors) in front of a studio audience

Question 18

what were the findings of the game show

Answer 18

80% of them delivered the maximum shock of 460 volts
their behaviour was almost identical to that of milgram’s participants

Question 19

how many of milgrams participants delivered shocks up to 300 volts

Answer 19

100%

Question 20

how many participants stopped at 300 volts

Answer 20

12.5%

Question 21

how many continued to the highest level of 450 volts

Answer 21

65%

Question 22

what did milgrams particioants show signs of

Answer 22

extreme tension; sweating, trembling, stuttering