Social psychology - obedience
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- Created on: 17-02-13 14:34
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- Obedience
- Milgram 1963
- Volunteers were introduced to Mr Wallace - the learner and they themselves were the teacher.
- The teachers were instructed to teach a simple memory test and when the learners got it wrong they were given an increasingly painful electric shock.
- 65% went up to the maximum voltage of 450 volts even when Mr Wallace cried out in pain and spoke of a heart condition.
- Participants were deceived, suffered psychological harm and could not give conformed consent.
- Some participants claimed that they had figured out the experiments purpose.
- Factors affecting obedience
- The setting of the experiment
- When Milgram's study was done in a seedy office instead of Yale university obedience dropped
- Reducing the power of the experimenter
- When the experimenter gave instructions over the phone obedience dropped.
- Increasing awareness of the plight of the victim
- When the learner was in the same room as the teacher obedience dropped.
- The setting of the experiment
- Obedience in the field
- Hoflings nurses
- Bickman - the power of uniform
- Validity of obedience research
- Experimental realism
- How only the variables have affected the experiment
- Mundane realsim
- How the experiment can be generalisef
- Experimental realism
- Why do people obey?
- Legitimate authority
- The amount of social power held by the person who gives the instruction.
- The authority figure takes responsibility
- Graduated comittment
- Becoming locked into stages of obedience
- The authoritarian personality
- Extreme respect for authority
- Legitimate authority
- Milgram 1963
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