Milgram's obedience study
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- Created on: 08-10-18 15:26
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- Milgram's obedience study
- aim
- to find out whether a particular situation will cause someone to become more obedient
- method
- 1. 40 male volunteer participants were recruited by newspaper ads
- 2. they were ordered by the experimenter (in a white coat) to deliver increasing electrical shocks
- 3. the confederate only got a shock for every question they got wrong
- they'd complain about having a heart condition
- 4. after a few voltage increases the actor would start to bang on the which separated him from the participant
- 5. the actor would stop banging on the wall and there'd be no responses
- if subject wanted to stop the experimenter would give verbal prods
- if participant wanted to stop after 4 of them then experiment would be stopped
- findings
- no participants stopped before 300 volts
- 3 stopped at 300v
- 65% went up to the max volt of 450v
- participants showed signs of stress and tension
- sweating, trembling, stutter etc
- no participants stopped before 300 volts
- aim
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