Burger study
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- Created on: 13-04-17 13:40
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- Burger Study
- Aim
- To investigate contemporary levels of obedience to see if they have changed since Milgram's studies in the 60's
- Procedure
- 70 males and females aged 20-81 selected from a much larger group following tests and interviews to assess their psychologically suitability to take part
- The actually experiment was similar to Milgram's except that the generator only went up to 150V
- Reduces levels of distress felt by the Ppts
- Results
- 70% of Ppts were willing to continue beyond the 150V cut off point
- Conclusion
- Levels of obedience have not changed since the time of Milgram's original study in the 60's
- Evaluation
- Used a more diverse group of ppts including a wide range of ages, genders and ethnicities
- Easier to generalise to others
- DV of obedience was not measured in the same way as in Milgram's experiment
- Cannot be certain that the ppts would have continued to 450V
- Lacks mundane realism
- Artificial laboratory set-up
- Unusualness of the task
- Used a number of deceptions
- Led to a lack of informed consent
- Right to withdraw affected by the prompts
- Psychological harm reduced due to ppts being stopped at 150V
- Used a more diverse group of ppts including a wide range of ages, genders and ethnicities
- Aim
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