Milgram
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 17-05-15 09:39
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- Milgram
- Aim
- whether individuals will act in an inhuman way to a stranger to obey an order
- Procedure
- advert in a local paper
- 'memory and learning experiment'
- attracts a certain type of volunteer
- payment for participating
- class bias
- self- selected sample
- payment for participating
- Deception
- took place at yale
- prestigious
- demand characteristic
- investigator effect
- participants more trusting of the experimenter
- investigator effect
- confederate middle aged and wearing a white coat
- explained the nature of the experiment
- deception
- pretended to draw lots for conditions but the real participant was always the teacher
- explained the nature of the experiment
- Teacher shown a range of switches from 15v to 450v
- volts were labelled with their danger eg 135v-180 v severe shock
- learner given an electric shock infront of teacher
- teacher gave learner a memory task
- If the learner got it wrong then the teacher had to give them an electric shock
- each time they got it wrong the strength of the electric shock would increase
- learner would purposefully get one wrong after they got three right
- screams got louder
- at 180v they complained of a weak heart
- 300 v they banged on the wall
- 315v their was silence
- advert in a local paper
- prods for f the experimenter refused
- 'the experiment requires you to go on
- 'you have no choice you must go on'
- Findings
- they shook, shuttered and sweated
- all participants went to 300v
- despite it being labelled as intense shock
- 65% went to 450v
- colleagues only predated 2.6% would go to 240v
- only 35% disobeyed
- showed that anyone is capable of committing such acts to obey
- research for German Nazi soldiers
- Issues
- lack of informed consent
- deception
- right to withdraw was denied
- harm to patient
- forced to continue even though they were distressed
- Milgram's defence
- participants tod the shocks weren't real ad introduced to unharmed learner
- debriefing
- obedient participants told their behaviour was normal
- disobedient participants told their behaviour was desirable
- questionnaires
- 92% responded
- 80 were glad theyd taken part and 70% said theyd learned from this
- participants visited by psychiatrist one year on
- no longer term damage
- participants tod the shocks weren't real ad introduced to unharmed learner
- Aim
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