Milgram's(1963) original study of obedience
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- Milgram's (1963) Study Of Obedience
- Aim
- To establish a baseline measure of how obedient naïve participants would be when ordered to administer increasingly intensive electric 'shocks' to an innocent victim
- Procedure
- 40 male, white American participants
- aged 20 - 50
- advertised in a newspaper, for a fee of $4
- at Yele University
- Meet "Mr Wallace" cofederate
- The participant sat around a screen from Mr Wallace, test learners ability to learn word pairs
- Every time an error was made electric shock was addministered
- The voltage was increased every time by 15V
- Final shock level set at 450V and labelled '***'
- The voltage was increased every time by 15V
- Results
- 100% participants continued to 300V
- 65% delivered full 450V
- Most showed signs of stress, but did not feel they could stop when ordered to continue
- Conclusion
- This study shows theat...
- Power of authority over our behavionr
- potential in ordinary Americans' capable to that Nazis during the WWII (Holocaust)
- This study shows theat...
- Milgram's Features which lead to obedience
- Diffusion of responsibility
- participants asked the experimenter who would take responsibility for Mr Wallace. the experimenter reassured he would take the responsibility, so the participant felt more comfortable.
- Small steps to evil
- the generator switches went up in small intervals, so participants found it easier to obey
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Evaluation
- Generalizability
- Difficult to generalise, small, culturally based sample . May not apply to other cultures or females.
- Reliability
- Tight controls, standardised, could be repeated, therefore reliable
- Validity
- Low in validity, demand characteristics may have occurred, Yele university
- Low in ecological Validity, lacks mundane realism,
- Generalizability
- Aim
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