social booklet 2 Flashcards
describe Milgram’s original study
1- volunteers were invited to yale uni to do a study on ‘how punishment affects learning’
2- they were put in a room with a scientist which was a confederate observing them
3- they were told to give an electric shock every time the learner in the other room that couldnt be seen got a question wrong
4-when participants hesitated the confederate used prompts such as ‘the experiment requires you to continue’ or ‘I am taking full responsibility so please continue’
5- eventually hitting 450v, the learner would be silent and the ‘teacher’ would believe they had killed the learner
what was the true aim of milgrams experiment
To see the conflict between personal conscience and obedience to authority
what are the negatives of the milgram study
lacks ecologicaL VALIDITY DUE TO it being done in a lab
why can money not be used as a negative for the milgram study
they were told they wouldve been payed anyway
name two situational variables
uniform
proximity
how do socio psych variables affect obedience
They will blame people higher up for their actions- i was j following orders
EG of a dispositional variable
authoritarian personality
what does a person w an authoritarian personality do
follow people higher than them but treats people below poorly
How can milgrams study be applied to irl
The my lai massacre where lt calley and others murdered 500 civs because they were following orders.
How are ethics broken in milgrams study
The participants are deceived into thinking that they are doing a study into how punishment affects learning
possibly also because the participants now know that they can kill someone , mentally damaging them
name 3 socio psychological variables
peer pressure, personality and social class
