Obedience: Milgram's research
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- Created on: 07-05-18 14:47
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- Obedience: Milgram's research:
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- Key study: MIlgram's origional obedience study:
- Procedure - Milgram recruited 40 male participants through newspaper ads and postal flyers. The ad said he was looking for participants for a memory study. Participants were aged between 20 and 50, in jobs ranging from unskilled to professional. They were given $4.50 just for turning up.
- Participants drew lots for their role. A confederate (Mr Wallace) was always the 'learner' while the true participant was the 'teacher'. An 'experimenter' (another confederate) wore a lab coat. Participants were told they could leave the study at any time. The learned was strapped into a chair in another room and wired with electronics. The teacher had to give the learner an increasingly severe electric 'shock' each time he made a mistake on a task (learning word pairs). The teachers weren't told that the shocks were all fake and that Mr Wallace was an actor.
- Shocks started at 15 volts (labelled 'light shock') and rose through 30 levels to 450 volts ('danger - severe shock'). At 300 volts 'intense shock' the learner pounded on the wall and gave no response to the next question. After the 315-volt shock the learner pounded on the wall again but gave no further response.
- When the teacher turned to the experimenter for guidance, he gave a standar instruction: 'Absence of response should be treated as a wrong answer'. If the teacher felt unsure about continuing, the experimenter used a sequence of 4 standard 'prods', including - 'Please continue' or 'please go on', 'The experiment requires that you continue', 'It is absolutley essential that you continue' and 'You have no other…
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