obedience: milgram
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- Created on: 01-07-18 11:28
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- obedience: Milgram
- procedure
- pp gave fake electric shocks to 'learner'
- in obedience to instructions from 'experimenter'
- findings
- 65% gave highest shock of 450 volts
- 100% gave shocks up to 300 volts
- many showed signs of anxiety
- 12.5% stopped at 300 volts
- qualitative data
- extreme tension
- sweating
- 3 pp had sieizures
- to see why Germans followed orders from Hitler
- participants
- 40 males
- between 20 & 50 years
- jobs: unskilled to professional
- told they could leave the study at any time
- learner: a confederate
- strapped into a chair in another room
- experimenter: a confederate
- dressed in a lab coat
- teacher had to giver the 'learner' an electric shock
- each time they made a mistake on the task
- had to learn word pairs
- each time they made a mistake on the task
- shocks were not real
- shocks from 15 - 450 volts
- 30 levels
- response from 'learner' got worse
- 300 volts- pounding on the wall
- no response to the next question
- 315 volts- pounding on the wall
- no further response
- 300 volts- pounding on the wall
- researcher used 4 standard prods
- please continue/ please go on
- the experiment requires you to continue
- its essential that you continue
- you have no other choice, you must go on
- procedure
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