Hofling Hospital
- Created by: ashleighchester97
- Created on: 23-04-15 11:29
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- Hofling Hospital
- Aims
- To establish the level of obedience in a normal everyday setting
- Procedure
- 22 night nurses in psychiatric hospitals in USA
- Received call from a person posing as a doctor (Confederate)
- Instructed to administer 20mg of Astroten to patient before he arrived
- Max dosage 10mg clearly stated on label
- Doctor said he would sign authorisation paper when he got there
- Is a rule against taking orders over phone
- Evaluation
- Was done in 66 might lack temporal validity as nurses have changed
- Was a field experiment so it has high ecological validity
- Was a small sample size so hard to generalise
- Findings
- 21 our of 22 obeyed and prepared the medication (the stopped and told it was experiment)
- Were prepared to administer even though unauthorised drug in ward
- Accepted instructions from a doctor they never heard of
- Conclusion
- Blind obedience to an authority figure can occur in real life
- Aims
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