Obedience: Milgram's research
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- Obedience: Milgram's research - Original Obedience Study (1963)
- Findings and conclusions
- Signs of extreme tension
- Three seen to have 'full-blown uncontrollable seizures'
- 12.5% stopped at 300v
- 65% continued to the full 450v
- Unexpected
- 100% went to 300v
- Follow up questionnaire
- 74% said they learned something
- 84% felt glad to have participated
- Signs of extreme tension
- Procedure
- $4.50 for just turning up
- 40 males, aged between 20 and 50, whose jobs ranged from unskilled to professional
- 4 prods
- At the beginning of the experiment, they were introduced to another
participant, who was a confederate of the experimenter (Milgram)
- They drew straws to determine their roles – learner or teacher –
although this was fixed and the confederate was always the learner. There was
also an “experimenter” dressed in a gray lab coat, played by an actor (not
Milgram)
- The “learner” (Mr. Wallace) was strapped to a chair with electrodes.
After he has learned a list of word pairs given him to learn, the
"teacher" tests him by naming a word and asking the learner to recall
its partner/pair from a list of four possible choices
- The teacher is told to administer an electric shock every time the learner
makes a mistake, increasing the level of shock each time. There were 30
switches on the shock generator marked from 15 volts to 450
- The learner gave mainly wrong answers (on purpose), and for each of these, the teacher gave him an electric shock. When the teacher refused to administer a shock, the experimenter was to give a series of orders/prods to ensure they continued
- The teacher is told to administer an electric shock every time the learner
makes a mistake, increasing the level of shock each time. There were 30
switches on the shock generator marked from 15 volts to 450
- The “learner” (Mr. Wallace) was strapped to a chair with electrodes.
After he has learned a list of word pairs given him to learn, the
"teacher" tests him by naming a word and asking the learner to recall
its partner/pair from a list of four possible choices
- They drew straws to determine their roles – learner or teacher –
although this was fixed and the confederate was always the learner. There was
also an “experimenter” dressed in a gray lab coat, played by an actor (not
Milgram)
- Strengths
- The Social Learning Theory is an alternative explanation
- Replications have supported Milgram's findings
- Good external validity
- Weaknesses
- Lacked internal validity
- Ethical issues
- Findings and conclusions
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