Milgrams Study Flashcards
What was the year of milgrams study?
1963
What is milgrams study classed as
Classical
What Was milgrams aim?
Tests idea that Germans were different to other people
Info on the ‘learner’
- mr Wallace
- 47 yr old
- American- Irish
- male
Info on the ‘experimenter’
- 31 yr old
- dressed in lab coat to show authority
- role to sternly prompt ppt
What percentage of ppts went to 450V?
65%
what was Milgram’s sample?
40 males
- 20-50 yrs old
- american
how did Milgram recruit his sample? What type of sampling is it?
- newspaper advertisement for a memory test
- volunteer sampling
where was the study conducted?
Yale university
what was Milgram’s procedure? (5)
1-split ppts into learners and teachers
-rigged lottery draw-confederate was the learner-ppt=teacher
2-gave sample shock of 45v to all ppts and witnessed learner be strapped into9 chair
3-told if learners got a question wrong they would have to shock
4-if they refused, given prods to carry on
5-no contact with the learner at 300V
give 2 examples of prods used?
- please continue
- you must go on
what features did the ppts display? (moral strain) (3)
- sweating
- trembling
- groaning
what was the conclusion of the study?
obedience is due to situational factors regardless of personality
GENERALISABILITY (4)
- androcentric-all male-less representative to obedience in women
- ethnocentric-all American-can’t represent other cultures e.g., collectivist
- small sample
- didn’t account for individual differences
RELIABILITY (4)
+standardised procedure-done on all ppts-repeatable-reliable
+shock generator kept the same for all
+prompts the same for all-no situational factors to make less repeatable
+lab experiment-high controls-reliable
