Milgram Study
- Created by: PhoebeRose25
- Created on: 13-04-18 17:42
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- Volunteer sample
- offered $4.50
- MILGRAM STUDY
- Aims
- find out what extent people would obey a figure of authority
- create baseline data
- Procedures
- "random" assignment of teacher and learner
- Stooge ("Mr Wallace") learner and strapped into chair connected to shock generator
- Teacher asks learner series of qu - when answer wrong gives a shock
- shock increase by 15V each time
- shocks were fake
- 150V demands to be let out
- 270V screams
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- WHY?
- understand Adolf Eichmann who was "just following orders"
- challenge the "Germans-are-different" approach that set up after WW2
- "Nazi in all of us"
- if ppt stops then challenged with 4 prods
- please continue
- the experiment requires that you continue
- it is absolutely essential that you continue
- you have no other choice, you must go on
- collected predictions first
- psychiatrists, college sophomores, middle class adults, grad students, faculty of behavioural services
- nearly all would disobey
- 4% reach 300V
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- Results
- all obedient to 300V
- 14 dropped out between 300V - 375V (35%)
- 65% completely obedient
- sweating, trembling, stuttering, trembling, groaning
- 14 nervous laughter
- Criticisms
- volunteers had a sense of obligation
- lack of informed consent - deception
- harmful long term effects
- prods question the right to withdraw
- poor quality of debriefing
- Validity, reliability and objectivity
- high internal validity - did test if people obey
- low external validity - demand characteristics and very unrealistic
- high reliability - scripts and prods allow repetition
- high objectivity - filming and recording of facts
- Evaluation
- all experiments standardised and controlled
- quantitative and qualitative data
- samples not representative
- volunteer samples are more likely to be authoritarian
- Gina Perry - some ppts didn't think they were in study
- unrealistic
- unethical - ppt anxiety may leave damaging effects, deception worry and right to withdraw
- Aims
- newspaper advert
- for men aged 20-50
- 40 ppts origionally
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