🔵 Social influence: Milgram's research on Situational variables

Question 1

What are situational variables

Answer 1

They are facts that influence the level of obedience due to the physical and social environment

Question 2

Describe the proximity variation study that Milgram conducted from his baseline study

Answer 2

This variation consisted of the teahcer and learner being

Question 3

Describe the proximity touch condition study that Milgram conducted from his baseline study

Answer 3

In this condition the teacher had to force the learners hand on the shock plate when they gave the wrong answers

Question 4

What are situational variables also known as

Answer 4

External factors of obedience

Question 5

Why did Milgram conduct various studies of his baseline studies

Answer 5

This is because he wanted to consider the variables which may lead to more or less obedience

Question 6

Describe the remote instruction condition of the proximity variation that Milgram conducted

Answer 6

In this condition the experimenter leaves the room and gives instructions to the teacher (the real experimenter) by telephone

Question 7

What did the rate of obedience in the Milgram’s proximity variation study drop to

Answer 7

The rate dropped from the original 65% to 40%

Question 8

What did the rate of obedience in the Milgram’s proximity touch variation study drop to

Answer 8

The rate dropped from the original 65% to the 30%

Question 9

What did the rate of obedience in the Milgram’s remote instruction variation study drop to

Answer 9

The rate of obedience dropped from the original 65% to 20.5%

Question 10

How does decreasing proximity affect obedience based on Milgram’s proximity variation studies

Answer 10

Decreasing proximity decreases the rate of obedience

Question 11

Why does decreasing proximity result in a lower rate of obedience

Answer 11

This is because it means that people physiologically distance themselves from the consequences of their actions

Question 12

How does the location variation of Milgram’s research on situational variables differ from the baseline procedure

Answer 12

Milgram conducted the study in a run down office building rather than the Yale University

Question 13

What were the results of the location variation of Milgram’s research on situational variables

Answer 13

Obedience fell down to 47% compared to the original 65%

Question 14

Why did obedience decrease for when Milgram conducted the study in a run down office building rather than the Yale University

Answer 14

The run down building gave Milgram’s study less legitimacy and authority

hence

obedience was lower because the experimenter shared the same lack of authority as the location

Question 15

Why was obedience still high for the location variation of Milgram’s research on situational variables

Answer 15

This is because participants still perceived the scientific nature of the procedure

Question 16

What was the experimenter wearing in Milgram’s baseline study

Answer 16

A grey lab coat

Question 17

How does the uniform variation of Milgram’s research on situational variables differ from the baseline procedure

Answer 17

The experimenter was called away by an inconvenient phone call at the start of the procedure

Then the role of the experimenter was replaced by a memeber of the public wearing normal clothees instead of a lab coat

Question 18

What were the results of the uniform variation of Milgram’s research on situational variables

Question 19

Why did obedience decrease for when Milgram conducted the study with the role of the experimenter being taken over by a person in normal clothes