Evaluation of Obedience
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- Created on: 24-11-16 02:32
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- Evaluation of Obedience
- internal validity
- participants may not have beleived shocks were real
- stress symptoms are hare to fake
- Experimenter gave inconsistent infomation
- said shocks were lavelles as dangerous but would not cause tissue damage
- Sampling wasnt that random
- newspaper recruited and paid
- encourages certain types of people to volunteer
- Reicher & Haslam
- if P's were obedient they should have been more obedient the more the prod was like an order but this was not the case
- There is little evidence for the agentic state. only considers relationship between p's and experimenter not p's and victim
- Social identify explanation (Reicher & Haslam)
- Behaviour depends on perceptions of shared identity with experimenter or victim
- obedience levels fall as soon as p's are encouraged to categorise themselves with experimenter
- spatial arrangements experimenter is absent
- experimenter being less prototypical of the science category carried out at yale rather than office builfing
- experiment imposing himself over p
- p coming aware of victim
- participants may not have beleived shocks were real
- external validity
- Mandel (1998)l
- Obedience does not provide a valid explanation of what happened during the holocaust
- obedience and agentic state are circular concepts
- no evidence fo all - or - non quality and reversibility of the agantic state as propsed my milgram
- holocaust crimes despite close proximity, minimal supervision & other refusing to participate
- Obedience does not provide a valid explanation of what happened during the holocaust
- doubt the results could be obtained in different contexts
- milgrams results have been replicated by Burger with 70% of ps stopping when learner wantes (original was 82.5%)
- Mandel (1998)l
- Ethical considerations
- potetnial long term mental heath
- should have been warned potential stressful
- slaater (2006) recent replication using virtual victim could help investigate further in future
- internal validity
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