Sample is not representative of general population, males 20-50 (adrocentric research)
Self selecting sample (volunteers) from an advertisement could perhaps be more compliant or more authoritive- "blamed experimenter"
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Reliability
Highly standardised and controlled. As they briefed, apparatus and prods were the same. Behaviour was monitored, repeatable-scientific
Lab research is unrealistic and not representative of real behaviour
Task lacked Mundane Realism as it is not ordinary -unique.
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Application
Explains attrocities -nazis- We are all capabkle of harming.
Could increase obedience in the workplace/schools
Artificial, cant apply to real life as lacks mundane realism.
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Validity
Some beleived that they didnt administer real shocks
Lacks ecological validity, not usual everyday activity, didnt seem real.
individual differences, some could be more passive and some more resistant
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Ethical
Dina Baurind 1964 says taht it was deliberate distress, but Milgram never anticipated the distress involved. However, he conducted 18 of these studies on 636 people
Decpetion, participants thought they were giving shocks, mr wallice was real and they were in a memory expeiment not obedience experiment, draw was rigged.
Caused distress and embarassment but told that it was "normal behaviour"
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