Milgram
- Created by: emma
- Created on: 04-03-14 22:34
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- Milgram
- Aim
- the process of obedience
- to demonstrate the power of a legitimate authority figure even when the command requires destructive behaviour
- Procedure
- Cover story told to participants
- looking at the effect of punishment on learning
- Slips of paper drawn from a hat to decide who would play learner/ teacher
- Both said teacher Mr Wallace pretended his said learner
- Teacher and learner taken to a room where learner was strapped to chair
- "to prevent learner from escaping"
- Electrodes and paste applied
- to prevent blisters/ burns
- "Were the shocks painful?"
- No permanent tissue damage would be cuased
- Given a sample shock of 45v from battery
- To convince ppts it was real
- Only shock administered
- Learner task- teacher read word pairs to learner, which he then had to repeat
- correct answer- teacher pressed light switch learner could see
- Incorrect- teacher administered shocks in 15v increments
- Shock generator look real
- "shock generator type zlb dyson instrument company"
- Labelled with voltages from 15 to 450 with slight shock to danger severe shock
- Learner gave predetermined set of responses
- 3 wrong to 1 right
- At 300v learner pounded on wall and answers no longer appeared
- 315v learner pounded on wall then fell silent
- Experimenter gave standardised feed back
- prod 1234 if refused to go on
- "no response from learner?" treat this as an incorrect response and to shock learner
- if the learner could suffer permanent physical injury"
- although shocks may be painful there is no permanent tissue damage
- Experiment ended if ppt walked out or 450v were administered
- "The learner did not want to go on"
- Cover story told to participants
- Participants
- 40 males
- Aged 20-50
- From new Haven USA
- Wide range of occupations e.g clerks, labourors
- Results
- If administered 450v (obedient) if not (defiant)
- 100% administered 300V
- 5 refused to continue
- 65% administered 450v
- observerd to sweat , tremble, groan, laugh nervously, stutter, 3 had uncontrollable sezierures
- Conclusion
- Two distinct states of consciousness due to living in a hierarchical society (autonomous and agentic)
- Most discomfort when we shift between states (agentic shift)
- disobeying more difficult then obeying
- Most discomfort when we shift between states (agentic shift)
- Two distinct states of consciousness due to living in a hierarchical society (autonomous and agentic)
- Background
- Agentic state- acting as an agent for someone else resolving responsibility for own actions
- Autonomous state- Acting according to own beliefs and values, responsible for own actions
- DV's
- Pod 1- please contiue
- Prod 2- the experiment requires that you continue
- Prod 3- It is absolutely essential that you must continue
- Prod 4- you have no other choice you must go on
- Aim
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