obedience Flashcards
what are the 2 explanations for obedience
agentic state/legitimate authority
what is agentic state
when people see themselves as not responsible for own actions/blame others
what is autonomous state
when people hold themselves responsible/take blame
how do you go from autonomous to agentic
agentic shift
what is legitimate authority
someone perceived as being in control due to position
what is a real life example of agentic state
germans working in auschwitz
who investigated obedience
milgram
how many pp in this experiment
40 males from nyc
how were pp chosen
500 answered a survey
where was the study done
yale university
what happened when pp arrived
greeted by experimenter and another pp who was actually a confederate
what role was confederate given
learner
what role was pp given
teacher
what did the pp have to do
shock the learner if they recalled the word pair incorrectly or they wee silent
what was the learner told to do
give 3 wrong answers every 1 correct
at 300v bang then stay silent
how many switches was there
30
what was the range of voltage
15-450
what did it increase in
15v
what prompts did the experimenter give
please continue/essential
what was the hypothesis
only 1% would go to 450v
what % went to 450v
65%
what % went to 300v
100%
how many pp refused after 300v
5
what variations did milgram investigate
proximity/touch proximity/experimenter absent/location/uniform
what were results in variations
all levels fell
what are positives of milgrams study
high ecological validity,standardised procedure
what are negatives of milgrams study
demand characteristics,low population validity
who investigated power of uniform
bushman
what was the study on uniform
female confederate stopped people on street wearing either a police uniform/business wear/beggar
what was the obedience rates
72%/48%/52%
