Obediece: Milgram’s Research Flashcards
What did Milgram want to know?
Why the Germans acted the way they did in concentration camps in WWII and why they did what Hitler told them to do
Where did the experiment take place?
Yale University and involved giving people orders to hurt and possibly kill an innocent stranger
What was he investigating?
- Situational factors
- Dispositional factors
What did Milgram advertise?
For volunteers to take part in a learning and memory test
What was Milgram’s procedure?
40 males aged between 20 and 50, the participants were teachers and the learner was a confederate, the teacher was in an adjacent room, if a wrong answer was given the participant would give the learner an electric shock, the shocks were not real
What were the confederates told to do?
Give mostly wrong answers and a tape was played to make it seem they were shocked, after 300 volts the learner became silent, the highest voltage was 450
What were Milgram’s findings?
All 40 participants continued to 300v and 65% continued to 450v. The closer the teacher was to the learner the more they would refuse to deliver the shocks
What was Milgram’s conclusion?
If a person is at the bottom of a social hierarchy they tend to lose feelings of compassion and tend to obey those higher up
What are 3 evaluation points?
