Milgrams Original LT1 Flashcards
How many pps and what ages were they?
40 male pps ages 20-50
What was the aim
To establish how obedient pps would be when ordered to give increasingly intense electrical
Shocks by an authority figure, thinking that they were physically harming that person
How much were pps paid
$4.50
What were the pps told the study was actually on
Human learning and memory
Where did the study take place?
Yale university
What kind of draw did the pps draw lots with the confederate
Rigged draw
What did the shocks increase by?
15 volts
What were the questions based around
Word pairs
What would happen if the ok asked to stop
The experimenter would deliver a standardised sequence of 4 verbal prods
How many pps gave 450v to an unresponsive learner?
65%
What was concluded?
Ordinary people obey authority even when it causes them distress because of the social situation they are in not because they are evil
Replicable
Controlled procedures, scripted learner respond, therefore tested for reliability
Low Eco validity
Carried out in an artificial lab setting at Yale. Pps mag have felt protected by the experimenter and trusted that what happened at Yale would be acceptable.
