Milgram's Study - EVALUATION - Character analysis in A Level and IB Psychology


	Experimental Realism	Mundane Realism
	Same Experimenter Same Type of Screaming/Answers Same Confederate Labortatory Conditions Standardised Experience Same Examiner Prods High Internal Validity (?)	Not a natural envrioment Not a natural task Germany was at war in 1945/America isn't in 1960 Germans were that brutal in the Holocaust Low External Validity (?)
	Extraneous Variables	Sample Representativeness
	Participant Variables; such as levels of brutality, ******, criminals, etc Demand Characteristics; wanting to please the examiner, realising the experiment wasn't real, for the good of science, etc MILGRAM ARGUES: participant's reactions were real - shaking, crying, wanting to stop, etc Low Internal Validity (?)	Only 40 participants (Small sample size) All Male All American Wide range of jobs/occupations Can be easily generalised (?)

Participant Variables; such as levels of brutality, ******, criminals, etc
Demand Characteristics; wanting to please the examiner, realising the experiment wasn't real, for the good of science, etc
MILGRAM ARGUES: participant's reactions were real - shaking, crying, wanting to stop, etc
Low Internal Validity (?)

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