Social Influence -Obedience Milgrims Situational Variables

Question 1

Social ingluence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Proximity

Answer 1

Closeness to authority figure
When experimenter gave orders by phone decreased to 20.5%obedient naives
Teacher and learner in same location decrease to 40%obedient naives from
Obedience to 30% when teacher forces learners hand onto place.
65% baseline study

Question 2

Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Location

Answer 2

Where order issued
Baseline at Yale Uni 65% obey
Decreased to 47.5% at run down office,

Question 3

Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Conclusion

Answer 3

People obey more when in prestige location, close to figure,wearing uniform - makes them more legitimate have higher status

Question 4

Social ingluence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Uniform

Answer 4

Experimenter played by member of public from 65% to 20% obedience

Question 5

Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Proximity reasoning

Answer 5

When proximity decrease can separate themselves from consequences of actions
In diff rooms participant “tracher”less aware of affect on learner

Question 6

Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Location reasoning

Answer 6

Prestige uni more obey cus environment make more legitimate .when run down less confidence in authority figure.

Question 7

Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Uniform

Answer 7

Uniforms r widely recognised symbols .expect they r entitled.feel entitled to obey

Question 8

Social influence milgrams factora affecting obedience
Research suport

Answer 8

Bickman
NYC
3 confed dressed in diff fits
Jacket tie ,milkman and security guard
2X likely to obey confed as security than jacket n tie

Question 9

Social influence
Milgrams factors affecting obedience
Lowinternal valid

Answer 9

Procedure fake 25%dint believr shocks real experiemnter swapped with ember of public halfway through

Question 10

Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Ignores dispositional factors

Answer 10

More to do with personality
Madel say alibi for bad behaviour
Implies names were victims of situational factors beyond control.could of been authoritarianism.
Middendorp low lev of education=obedience