Obedience and the Milgram study Flashcards
What is social influence?
Where an individuals behaviour, attitudes and emotions are affected by those of another individual.
What are 3 assumptions of what behaviour is caused by?
The situation or context we are in
The effects of another on us
The groups we are part of
What is obedience?
Compliance to the real or imagined demands of an authorative figure.
What was the background of Milgram’s Experiment?
Situation or disposition
Are the Nazi soldiers different to the rest of the population?
What was the aim of Milgram’s Experiment?
To see if a naive participant will obey an authoritive figure to deliver a lethal electric shock to an innocent person.
Who was sampled?
40 American males aged between 20-50
How were samples gathered?
Volunteer sample who responded to a newspaper ad.
What did the Newspaper ad say the experiment was about?
Learning and memory.
Where did the experiment take place?
Yale University
Who else did the participants meet?
Mr Wallace ‘the learner’. Told he was a ‘participant’ but he was a confederate.
An experimenter dressed in a lab coat.
What is a confederate?
A fake participant/actor
What electric shock were the participants given and why?
45 Volts
to make them think it was real
What did the participants do with Mr Wallace?
Strapped him to a machine and we’re in desperate rooms with no voice contact.
How did the ‘test’ work?
A woed association task. The learner was given a list of word pairs to learn
The teacher then presented them with one word and the learner had to recall the correct word pair.
His many volts did voltage increase by per wrong answer?
15v
