Obedience, Milgram Study
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- Created on: 14-04-14 17:09
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- Obedience, Milgram Study
- Obedience is when someone acts in response to a direct order from auhority
- Method
- 40 men, aged 20-50
- VOLUNTEERS to take part in a learning and memory study at Yale University, paid to do so
- Participant was always the teacher, learner was a stooge
- Teacher in room with experimenter. Teacher shocked learner for every incorrect answer to word pairs
- Shocks increased in 15V intervals
- If teacher hesitated, experimenter used verbal prods
- EG. 'Please continue'
- Teacher in room with experimenter. Teacher shocked learner for every incorrect answer to word pairs
- Participant was always the teacher, learner was a stooge
- VOLUNTEERS to take part in a learning and memory study at Yale University, paid to do so
- 40 men, aged 20-50
- Results
- All participants went to at least 300V, and 65% continued to the end
- Psychologists predicted 1% to go to end
- All participants went to at least 300V, and 65% continued to the end
- Conclusion
- Ordinary people will obey to the point at which harm may be caused
- Several ethical and methodological issues
- Situational Factors Affecting Obedience
- Several variations of experiment carried out
- Location
- Moved from Yale Uni to run down office block
- Dropped to 47.5%
- Moved from Yale Uni to run down office block
- Proximity of learner
- Learner/Victim moved to the same room
- Obedience dropped to 40%
- Learner/Victim moved to the same room
- Proximity of authority
- Orders given by telephone
- Decrease obedience to 20.5%
- Orders given by telephone
- Social Support
- Two stooge teachers introduced.
- At 150V, one stooge refused to continue
- Obedience dropped to 10%
- At 150V, one stooge refused to continue
- Two stooge teachers introduced.
- Peer administering shock
- Participant ordered a stooge to give shock
- Obedience increased to 92.5%
- Participant ordered a stooge to give shock
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