Milgram - Responses to people in authority
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- Milgram - Responses to people in authority
- Research Method
- Aim: to investigate the process of obedience by testing how far an individual will go in obeying an authority figure
- Lab experiment/ controlled observation
- Took place at Yale university
- Same Procedure
- Standardised responses
- Participants
- 40 males
- aged 20-50
- obtained through a newspaper advert
- Were paid $4.50 just for turning up
- Materials
- Shock Generator
- Tape Recorder
- Procedure
- 1. Data gathered through observations by experimenter and someone behind a one-way mirror
- 2.Participant always given role of teacher through fixed lottery and an actor was the learner
- 3. Actor strapped to a chair, participant given a trial shock of 40 volts
- 4. Participant sat in a different room and tested the actor, gave a shock for every wrong answer
- 5. Shocks voltage increased with each wrong answer, ranged from 15 to 450 V
- 7. The actor would start to bang the wall when it reached 300 V and pleaded to stop
- 8. If the participant asked for help the they wer given prompts by the experimenter such as "please continue"
- 6. Study finished when the participant refused to carry on (disobedient) or reached 450 volts (obedient)
- Results & Conclusion
- All participants went to 300V
- 65% continued to the full 450V
- 26 obedient, 14 disobedient
- Showed extreme signs of stress e.g. sweating, stuttering
- When study finished many sighed in relief or shook heads in regret
- Inhumane acts can be done by ordinary people based on certain situational features
- Individual differences such as personality influence the extent at which people obey
- All participants went to 300V
- Research Method
- KEY THEME: responses to people in authority
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