Behavioural Study of Obedience. ( milgram 1963)

Aim: To establish a baseline measure of how obedient naive participants would be when ordered to administer increasingly intense electric shocks to an innocent victims.

Method                   

• sample of 40 volunteers selected by newspaper advertising all male
• Advert offered $4.00
• Study took place in Yale University
• they were told they were taking part in a study on the effect of punishment on memory.
• There was a draw to find out who was the teacher and who was the learner.
• The learner was a confederate.
• They were shown the equipment and watched the confederate…