Milgram
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- Created on: 26-04-15 14:25
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- Milgram
- Context
- Obedience is following a direct order.
- Destructive obedience is following an order to harm someone
- Milgram was deeply affected by the extent to which people displayed distracting obedience in Holocaust
- Dispositional hypothesis
- Germanic culture led to high levels of conformity and mass genocide
- Situational hypothesis
- Behaviour defined by environment
- Pilot Survey
- 3% (of 14) Psychology students said participants would obey to full 450v
- Method
- Controlled observation
- Not an experiment as Milgram said - there's no control condition; only one task.
- Participants
- Self selecting
- News paper ad - study on memory and learning at Yale Uni
- 40 Males aged 20 - 50
- New Haven district
- Offered $4.50 for turning up - not conditional on completion
- Range of occupations
- 37.5% Manual Labourers
- 40% White collar
- 22.5% Professionals
- More representative of general population
- Self selecting
- Aim
- Aim: To investigate what level of destructive obedience would be shown when participants were told to administer electric shocks to another person
- Naive participant arrived at Yale University
- Met 47 year old Irish American accountant. Selected for mild mannered and likable nature
- Naive participant + confederate told there was teacher/learner role.
- Drew slips of paper from hat (equal chance)
- Naive participant always teacher
- Shown room divided by wall
- Learner strapped to chair with electrodes
- Shown electric shock generator - 30 switches. 15 - 450v
- Told extremely painful, but 'no permanent damage'
- Given 45v shock to demonstrate
- Administered by 31 year old Biology teacher. Stern and emotionless.
- Given 45v shock to demonstrate
- Told extremely painful, but 'no permanent damage'
- Shown electric shock generator - 30 switches. 15 - 450v
- Learner strapped to chair with electrodes
- Drew slips of paper from hat (equal chance)
- Naive participant + confederate told there was teacher/learner role.
- Met 47 year old Irish American accountant. Selected for mild mannered and likable nature
- Controlled observation
- Context
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