Milgrams Study

Question 1

Who were the participants in milligrams original study

How were they recruited

Answer 1

40 male Americans

Through newspaper adverts

Question 2

Who was the teacher
Who was the learner
Who was the experimenter

Answer 2

In the rigged draw for their roles:
-Participant would always end up as the ‘teacher’

• a confederate would end up as the learner/ student
• and another confederate dressed in a lab coat played the experimenter

Question 3

Describe the procedure

Answer 3

• learner strapped into a chair, wired with electrodes in another room
• teacher was required to give an increasingly severe electric shock rah time the learner made a mistake on a learning task
• the learner would pound on the wall at 300 volts and at 315 and after would give no response

Question 4

What was 300 volts labelled as

What was 450 volts labelled as

Answer 4

300 volts was labelled as ‘intense shock’

450 volts was labelled as ‘severe shock’

Question 5

When the teacher turned to the experimenter for guidance what were the four verbal prods

Answer 5

1. ‘please go on’
2. ‘the experiment requires you to continue’
3. ‘it is essential you continue’
4. ‘you have no choice you must go on’

Question 6

How many participants stopped before 300 volts

How many stopped at 300

Answer 6

None stopped before 300 volts
12.5 stopped at 300
Volts

Question 7

How many continued to 450 (max voltage)

Answer 7

65%

Question 8

Give some examples of the quantitive data collected

Answer 8

• sweating
• stuttering
• 3 had full blown seizures

Question 9

Explain low internal validity of the study

Answer 9

-Oren and holland argued participants behaved the way they did they guessed the shocks weren’t real
-Means milgram was not testing what he thought he was
Gina perry found that audio of te experiment showed participants expressed doubts if the shocks were real
-milgram reported 70% of participants said they believed the shocks were genuine