Milgram Flashcards
This study belongs to what area?
The social area
What is the background of the study?
The big moral question of the 20th century was the horrors of the Second World War. During the Nazi regime in Germany, the government initiated a policy of extermination of ‘worthless’ ethnic groups.
What was the aims of the study?
- Are Germans different?
What was the research method?
A controlled observation
What was the IV?
There’s was no IV
What was the DV?
Whether the participant went up to 450V. 450V was said to be ‘complete obedience’
What was the sample?
40 male participants aged between 20 and 50 years.
Where did this study take place?
USA- Yale university (laboratory)
What was the sampling technique?
Self-Selected
The participants always had the role of who?
The ‘teacher’ (who administered the volts)
Who was the ‘learner’
The ‘learner’ was the confederate and was called Mr Wallace (a 47 year old, mild-mannered and likeable accountant)
The participants had a trial sock of how many volts?
45 volts (to stimulate genuineness)
What did the participants (the ‘teacher’) do?
Sat in an adjacent room with an electric shock generator. Then asked the ‘learner’ a paired word test and gave him an electric shock for every wrong answer.
Describe the electric shock generator?
The machine had 30 switches ranging from 15-450 volts, in 15 volt increments.
What happened at 300v?
The learner pounded on the wall and thereafter made no further replies.
