To examine whether situational factors affect obedience levels
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How many and how were participants recruited?
29 men and 41 women were recruited through flyers offering money to take part
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What was the baseline condition?
Same concept as the original except at 150v the participant heard the confederate yell to stop as they had a heart issue
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What was the model refusal condition?
The same concept as the original but with two confederates where one walked out from the experiment
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What were the results?
In the model refusal, 70% obeyed fully and in the baseline condition 63.3% went past 150v
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What was concluded from Burger?
That people do still obey to the same extent that people did in the 1960's and authority still affects obedience
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Name three strengths of Burgers experiment
Both male and female participants meaning it is representative, controlled environments increases validity and they didn't know the purpose of the study so there wouldn't be demand characteristics
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Name three weaknesses of Burgers experiment
There were ethical issues including deception, it was lab based so lacks ecological validity and it was volunteer sampling so may lack representativeness
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How many and how were participants recruited?
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29 men and 41 women were recruited through flyers offering money to take part
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