MILGRAM"S STUDY - 1961

Question 1

what is obedience

Answer 1

a type of social influecne which causes a person to act in response to an order given by another person usually in a position of power/authority

Question 2

how was Milgram’s experiment set up

Answer 2

teacher and experimenter in the same room
student “attached’ to a volt board in a separate room
the teacher had to shock the student when they got a question wrong, increasing it every time all the way up to 450V

Question 3

how many Ps went all the way to 450V in the original test

Answer 3

65%

Question 4

how did proximity affect the number of Ps that went to 450V

Answer 4

orders over the phone - 20.5%
T+S in the same room - 40%
T had to force L’s hand onto electric plate - 30%

Question 5

how did location affect the number of Ps that went to 450V

Answer 5

in a rundown office building rather than a lab - 47.5%

Question 6

how did uniform affect the number of Ps that went to 450V

Answer 6

experimenter removed and replaced by a member of the public in normal clothes - 20%

Question 7

original experiment conditions

Answer 7

• experimenter wore a lab coat
• in a research lab at Yale which is prestigious
• teacher in a separate room to learner
• experimenter and teacher in the same room

Question 8

how did support affect the number of Ps that went to 450V

Answer 8

the P is given 2 buddies that sit with him and refuse the experimenter - 10%

Question 9

how does someone else shocking the learning affect number of Ps that go to 450V

Answer 9

the teacher makes someone else press the switches to deliver the volts - 92.5%

Question 10

pros of the experiment

Answer 10

• experimenter was objective to remained valid
• used an age range from 20-50 so good generalizability

Question 11

cons of the experiment

Answer 11

• only used males -> gender bias (lack of generalisability)
• poor ethics -> no informed consent, deception, no protection of participants from mental harm