The aim was to establish a baseline measure of how obedient naïve participants would be when ordered to administer increasingly intense electric shocks to an innocent victim.
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Who Were the PPs & How were they recuited?
A sample of 40 volunteers was selected by a newspaper advert for a study on human memory. The advert offered $4 for any male aged 25 to 50 years old, to be prepared to come to Yale University for the study.
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How were the roles allocated?
A rigged draw was taken so the confederate would always be the learner.
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What did the PPs have to do?
Read a list of words testing the learner (confederate), with the researcher telling the teacher to give a shock to the learner and increase the shock every time an answer is wrong.
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How did Milgram make his PPs believe that the study was real?
The participants were given a sample shock
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How was the obedience measured?
Obedience was measured by how far up the generator the teacher went before refusing to obey any more.
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What were the results?
Every PP went to at least 300v, 14 stopped between 300 and 375. The remaining 26 (65%) went all the way to 450v.
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Who Were the PPs & How were they recuited?
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A sample of 40 volunteers was selected by a newspaper advert for a study on human memory. The advert offered $4 for any male aged 25 to 50 years old, to be prepared to come to Yale University for the study.
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How were the roles allocated?
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What did the PPs have to do?
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How did Milgram make his PPs believe that the study was real?
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