To investigate what level of obedience would be shown when participants were told by an authority figure to administer electric shock to another person.
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IV & DV of Milgram's study?
IV: Presence of authority figure - 1) Degree of nearness between examiner and teacher 2) degree of nearness between teacher and learner DV: The level of obedience
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Describe the participants used in Milgram's study?
40 males between the ages of 20 and 50 from New Haven
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Describe the procedure
Participant was told experiment was to see how punishment affected learning. Participant introduced to Mr Wallace (learner) then strapped to electrodes. Teacher given a list of word pairs. learner needs to get them right or shocks increase..
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What were the results?
65% obeyed completely. 35% didn't obey completely. Participants showed tension, sweat, bit lip, seizures - no ethics.
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What explanation did Milgram give about high level of obedience?
Yale uni gave the study credibility and respect. Participant thought cause was good. Participant felt obliged to continue. Being paid. Told shocks aren't harmful
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Strengths of the study?
Well controlled - standardised, controls of extraneous variables. Study - ground breaking work.
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Weaknesses of the study?
Lacked ecological validity - lab exp. Lack of generalisabilty - Androcentric + Ethnocentric. Situational factors/social norms could be in place not authority fig. Ethics.
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IV & DV of Milgram's study?
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IV: Presence of authority figure - 1) Degree of nearness between examiner and teacher 2) degree of nearness between teacher and learner DV: The level of obedience
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Describe the participants used in Milgram's study?
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