Obedience Milgram/ Variations Flashcards
Obedience
Comply with the demands of someone u see as an authority figure
Milgram study
Aim - Americans obey unjust orders from authority figure
Procedure - 40 make pp lab at Yale uni real pp teacher role confed learner read word got wrong shock them 300 volt shout in pain want to stop ect
Findings all went 300 65% 450
Conclusion under right circumstances people will obey
Weakness of milgram
Pps people study not real lack internal validity
But researcher found shock puppy similar finding and the recoding many express concerns
Strength of milgram
Game of death replication if milgram pp in pilot episode for tv give eclectic shocks whne tokd to
80% went maximum
Support evidence
Proximity
Closeness of AF
Hofling - nurses level of infringe junhusy demands by doctors 21 out 22
Uniform
Bikman
3 confed in diffent clothes milkman security guard ordinary person ask people do task more likely obey security than others support milgram
Location
Run down office
Less authority fell 44.5%