Milgram's study

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What is the aim of Milgram's study?
To see how obedient naive participants would be when ordered to shock someone
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What was the sample for Milgram's study?
40 people
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How were the participants selected?
Volunteering via a newspaper advert
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How were the roles (teacher and learner) given out?
Through a rigged draw which always assigned the naive participant role of teacher
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What happened after the roles were assigned?
Both men are shown the equipment then they separate into two rooms
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When the experiment began, what happened?
The teacher shocks the learner at each wrong answer. The learner frequently complains of pain
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How was obedience measured?
By how far up the generator the teacher went
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What were the results?
Every participant continued to at least 300v. 26 (65%) went all the way to 450v
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What did Milgram conclude?
We are socialised to recognise authority and to react with obedience
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