Obedience
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- Created on: 27-01-22 11:30
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- Obedience
- Key study: Milgram (1963)
- procedure
- 40 volunteer participants in each condition
- real participant acted as 'teacher', confederate as 'learner'
- teacher administered increasing shock levels up to 450v
- findings
- in voice feedback condition, 65% went to maximum 450v
- all participants went to 300v level
- procedure
- Situational factors in obedience
- proximity
- obedience levels decreased with increasing proximity
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- location
- obedience levels dropped to 48% in lower-status setting
- high levels of obedience not surprising
- Power of uniform
- people more likely to obey someone in uniform
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- proximity
- Evaluation/ discussion
- internal validity
- Orne and Holland claim many participants saw through the deception
- historical validity
- Milgram's findings still as relevant today
- no relationship between year of study and obedience levels found
- Milgram's findings still as relevant today
- internal validity
- Key study: Milgram (1963)
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