Burger 2009
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- Created on: 14-04-18 20:12
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- BURGER 2009
- Aims
- to find out if Milgram's study would get same results now
- investigate personality variables in obedience
- empathy
- locus for control
- Sample
- 70 ppts
- men and women
- aged 20-80
- volunteer
- recruited through newspaper and online ads
- screened beforehand
- heard of milgrams experiment
- attended 2+ psych classes
- anxiety issues or drug dependancy
- Procedure
- replicate Milgram v5
- 15V test shock not 45V
- 75V indicates pain and 150V stops
- learner has heart condition
- as teacher moves to 165V experimenter stops
- learner has heart condition
- 75V indicates pain and 150V stops
- learner has heart condition
- as teacher moves to 165V experimenter stops
- Model Refusal Condition
- 2nd confederate pretends to be teacher and stops at 90V
- ppt asked to continue
- Differences to Milgram
- investigated individual differences
- empathy
- locus for control
- 2 step screening process
- ppts told 3 times could leave experiment in writing
- would still get money as paid first
- experimenter is clinical psychologist
- test shock 15V
- investigated individual differences
- Results
- 70% went past 150V
- 63.3% in model refusal
- no difference in men and women
- empathy had no significant difference
- higher locus of control caused people to stop at 150V or before
- Evaluation
- generalisable
- sample of 70 reduce anomalies
- sample covers wide age range (20-80 compared to 20-50)
- sample had men and women
- Milgram had only men at first but in variation 8 used women
- excluded some from sample
- reliable
- replicated Milgram
- script
- filmed it all
- inter-rater reliability
- application
- increase obedience in schools - wear symbols of authority
- test people for locus of control as they are more disobedient
- Validity
- lacks ecological validity
- ppts paid before so social pressure made them continue not money threat
- all based on assumption
- ethics
- 2 step screening to remove ppts who have negative reaction to exp
- told could withdraw at any time
- only 15V sample shock
- experimenter is clinical psychologist
- generalisable
- Aims
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