Meeus and Raaijmakers Obedience Study (AS Edexcel Psychology)

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What was the aim?
To replicate Milgram's baseline condition focusing on the ambiguities and to use a more up to date form of harm (psychological harm)
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What sampling method was used? And how were they 'recruited'?
Volunteer/self selected; they saw a newspaper advertisement
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How many participants were there in experiment 1?
39
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How many were in the control group and how many were in the experimental?
15 in control group and 24 in experimental
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What were the ages, gender and basic background info on the participants?
Ages ranged from 18 to 55 and consisted of both genders; all participants at least had a Dutch high school education
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How many people were involved in the procedure?
3 - The experimenter, the conferate/applicant and the naive participant
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What experimental design was it?
Independent meaures design
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What type of experiment was it?
Field
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Where was it set?
A modern building on a university campus
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How much (equivalent to US$) were the participants paid upon arrival?
US$13
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What were the participants told about the study?
That there will be a person who is applying for a job at the university and that job requires them to be able to deal with stress, and that the procedure of the study was to help research into the relationship between stress and test achievement
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What did the participants have to do?
Give 'stress' remarks (negative remarks about the performance and personality of the applicant) 15 times during the study
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When did they have to give the remarks and how did they know?
The test was split into 4 sets and during the first part, the participant made no remarks as to have a baseline of stress to compare to, and the following 3 sets of questions had to have 5 remarks given. They saw when to give remarks on a tv screen.
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How was stress measured?
(Though it was fake) There were electrodes on the applicant's skull and it ranged from 15 to 65 in stress level, this was shwon on a tv screen
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How many errors did the applicant have to make to fail the test and how many did they make?
They had to commit 8 errors to fail and the applicant made 10
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Did the applicant protest towards the negative comments?
Yes; by the 8th or 9th remark, the applicant asked the participant to stop making the comments
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What happened if the participant hesitated or refused to continue?
The experimenter gave 4 consecutive verbal prods (as in Milgram's study)
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Give an example of the 4
EITHER 'Please go on', OR 'The experiment requires that you continue', OR 'It is absolutely essential that you continue', OR 'You have no other choice - you must go on'
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What did the control group have to do?
They could choose when to make negative remarks and stop making them any time during the test, when they stopped making negative comments, the applicant didn't make errors and their stress level dropped
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What were the results for experiment 1?
92% (91.7%) OR 22 out of 24 were obedient and made all the stress remarks and in the control group, no participant made the stress remarks
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What was the two variations in experiment 2?
The experiment absent condition and the 2 rebellious peers condition
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How many participants were there and how many were put into each condition?
41 - 22 were in the experimenter absent condition and 19 in the 2 rebellious peers condition
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What was the basic procedure for the experimenter absent condition?
The experimenter ordered the strees remarks to be made and left the room of the participant, then the following procedure is the same as in experiment 1
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What was the basic procedure for the 2 rebellious peers condition?
2 confederates that joined the naive participant and they were all instructed together; the procedure then follows experiment 1 until the 8th remark, both peer-confederates started protesting, the prods were given but they both ignored them
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What were the results?
Obedience dropped in both variations. In the experimenter absent condition, 36% (36.4%) were fully obedient and in the other 16%(15.8%) were fully obedient
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What were the conclusions for the study?
That it seems easier to administer psychological violence rather than physical, that the participants wish to defer responsibility and that obedience levels are as high as ever.
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