MILGRAMS STUDY INTO OBEDIENCE
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- Created on: 04-01-19 17:14
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- MILGRAM
- AIMS
- To investigate whether ordinary people would follow orders and yield to an authoritive figure even if it involved harming an innocent person,
- To test the -'Germans are different' hypothesis.
- To establish under what conditions people would display more obedience or dissent.
- SAMPLE
- gender - males only , age - 25 to 50 years old , with a variation of occupations
- all participants were paid $4 and there bus fair paid for
- A total of 160 participants were selected who had a range of ages, occupations and educational levels.
- Milgram used a self selecting (or volunteer) sample.
- BASELINE PROCEDURE
- The experimenter used a series of standardised verbal prods to encourage obedience
- "You must continue."
- "The experiment requires that you continue."
- "It is absolutely essential that you continue."
- "You have no other choice , you must go on."
- The experimenter used a series of standardised verbal prods to encourage obedience
- RESULTS
- 100% obedience up too 300 volts
- 26 out of 40 participants went up too 450 volts
- Participants behaviour included shaking, trembling, stuttering, biting lips nervous laughing, digging in nails, sweating.
- Sign of high level of nerves, anxiety and pressue, distress and moral strain.
- Participants behaviour included shaking, trembling, stuttering, biting lips nervous laughing, digging in nails, sweating.
- 65 % went to the end of the shock generator and continued to admit the volts
- PREDICTIONS.
- AIMS
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