MILGRAM
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- Created on: 11-05-16 17:52
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- MILGRAM
- aim
- testing obedience by investigating how far an individual will go in obeying an authority figure
- even when the command breaches the moral code
- testing obedience by investigating how far an individual will go in obeying an authority figure
- participants
- 40 male participants aged 20-50
- only males
- self selecting sample from newspaper
- new haven area - $4.50 rewards
- share similar traits e.g. extroverted
- ethnocentric
- 40 male participants aged 20-50
- method/design
- controlled observation as no independant variable
- laboratory experiment at Yale University
- high control of extraneous variables
- reliable and replicable
- lacked mundane realism
- procedure
- role of teacher through fixed lottery
- volts ranging 15-450
- 300 volts learner pounded on the wall and did not reply
- results
- 100% reached 300 volts
- 26/40 65% reached 450
- 26 obedient and 14 disobedient
- conclusions
- inhumane acts can be done by ordinary people
- people will obey those whom they consider legitimate authority figures even if asked to go against morals
- individual differenced e.g. personality influence extent of obedience
- data
- both qualitative and quantitative
- easy to analyse
- easy to compare
- both qualitative and quantitative
- ethics
- no protection from harm
- health at risk 3 peoples had seziures
- didn't obtain consent
- payments made people feel obliged to continue
- verbal prods removed right to withdraw
- no protection from harm
- validity
- low ecological validity
- un-representative behaviour
- respected situation as at Yale
- relates to background studies
- low ecological validity
- reliability
- lab format grants high reliability
- easy to replicate
- consistent results
- key themes
- determinism and free will
- 65% situation chnaged behaviour
- individual and situational
- 65% determined by situation
- social psychology
- shows the extent people's behaviour can be influenced by others
- obedience
- high levles to authority
- determinism and free will
- aim
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