Discuss situational variables affecting obedience.
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- Created on: 13-03-19 10:19
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- Milgram did an original study into obedience, making people electrocute others if they got things wrong.
- He found 65% went to maximum shock level of 450v, and 100% went past 300v.
- However, when looking at the research, it is entirely experimentally reductionist.
- This means that he reduced people behaviours down to variables (what percentage of voltage they gave)
- He then, however, increased his research by looking into situational factors.
- One of the situational factors is the location where the experiment was happening.
- Milgram moved his study from the university building to a run down office building.
- Obedience rate of going to 450% dropped to 48%.
- However there is an ethical implication here of deception. It means that they could potentially cause psychological harm to their participants.
- Another situational variable is proximity.
- Milgram found it dropped to 40% when the teacher and learner were in the same room.
- When…
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