Obedience
- Created by: izzyxberry
- Created on: 23-03-17 15:00
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- Obedience
- Milgram's Original Study
- Aims
- How far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person
- Disprove the belief 'Germans are different'
- In right circumstance anyone is capable of performing an evil act
- Procedure
- Volunteer sample
- 40 males, 20-50yrs old from a range of occupations
- Aims
- Evaluation
- Applications
- explains pilot error in air crash disasters, when authority of captain is not questioned by co-pilot or cabin crew. Research can be used in training to alert those in subservient positions to the dangers of blind obedience.
- Applications
- Milgram's Original Study
- 'learner' is taken to adjoining room and strapped to chair attached to electrodes which will give him electrical shocks.
- 'learner' is read a list of word pairs, 'teacher' tests him by naming a word and asking 'learner' to recall pair from list of four poss. choices.
- 'teacher' gives a shock every time 'learner' makes a mistake, increasing level of shock each time.
- 30 switches, 15 volts to 450 volts (severe shock)
- Unbeknown to participant (teacher), the 'learner' wasn't receiving any shocks, as protests were from a voice recording.
- 30 switches, 15 volts to 450 volts (severe shock)
- 'teacher' gives a shock every time 'learner' makes a mistake, increasing level of shock each time.
- At beginning, one participant met a confederate who they thought was another participant, and drew straws to determine who would be learner or teacher, this was fixed so confederate was always learner.
- Procedure
- Volunteer sample
- 40 males, 20-50yrs old from a range of occupations
- Procedure
- 'learner' is read a list of word pairs, 'teacher' tests him by naming a word and asking 'learner' to recall pair from list of four poss. choices.
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