Milgrim's Obediance Study

Question 1

What was Milgrims sample?

Answer 1

40 American male volunteers aged 20-50

Question 2

What was the general procedure?

Answer 2

-used advertisment in a newspaper to seek volunteers (paying $4.50)
-took place at yale university
-participant was the teacher,confederate was learner
-said it was research on memory

Question 3

What was the general procedure of the Teacher(participants)

Answer 3

-had to administrate a learning task
-would deliver a electric shock if learner got it wrong

Question 4

What was the volts range?

Answer 4

15v-450v

Question 5

What kinds of promts were said by the researcher?

Answer 5

‘please continue’
‘the experiment requires you to carry on’

Question 6

What were the findings?

Answer 6

-all participants went up to 300v
-12.5% stopped at 300v
-65% went up to 450%

Question 7

what was the conclusion?

Answer 7

Ordinary people are obedient to authority when asked to behave in a inhumane way.
-these arent neccessarily evil people just ordinary people obeying orders

Question 8

What is a weakness of Milgrim’s Study?

Answer 8

-Has a Gender Bias
-Shown by androcentric sample
-Difficult to generalise to women
-As some research suggest females or more obedient regardless of the situational variable as there gender role dictates they they are submissive
-SHERIDAN AND KING (puppies)