Variations of Milgram

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What was the obedience level when the learner had an assistant to throw the switches?
92.5%
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What was the obedience % when the experiment was moved to some seedy offices?
48%
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What was the obedience % when the teacher and learner were in the same room?
40%
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What was the obedience % when the teacher had to force a learner's hand onto a shock plate?
30%
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What was the obedience % when the experimenter was wearing normal clothes?
20%
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What was the obedience % when prods were given over the telephone?
20%
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What was the obedience % when two confederate teachers refused to continue?
10%
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What is the factor involving the shock plate+the teacher and learner being in the same room?
Making the learner's plight more obvious
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What factor involves the seedy offices, clothes, and telephone prods?
Decrease in authority
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Criticism of internal validity?
Ps may have knew shocks were fake+may have acted under DC, however video evidence, seizures, and the fact that some refused to continued suggests they didn't know they were fake
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Milgram's follow up to this
56% of Ps believed shocks were real, 2.4% certain they were fake,
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How does the puppy study support these findings?
75% agreed to give puppies electric shocks and knew shocks were real, % is similar to Milgram's
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How does the study generalise to other populations?
Results for females were the same, however obedience varies across cultures=Australia 40%+Germany 85%
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How does Hofling's Nurse Study support this?
Nurses received a phone call from an unknown doctor ordering them to give 20mg of an unknown drug Astrofen, 21/22 obeyed, however 2/18 obeyed when it was made more realistic
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