Milgrims Study AO3

Question 1

Name the 4 evaluation points

Answer 1

• demand characteristics
• historical validity
• lack of population validity
• broke ethical guidelines

Question 2

What evidence supports the demand characteristics

Answer 2

Orne and Holland (1968)

Question 3

What evidence supports the historical validity

Answer 3

Blasts (1999)

Question 4

what evidence supports lack of population validity

Answer 4

Milgram used a bias sample of 40 male volunteers from a broadly individualistic society

Question 5

what evidence supports that Milgram broke ethical guidelines

Answer 5

Milgrim deceived his pots as they believed that they were taking part in a study on how punishment affects learning, rather than obedience

Question 6

What did Orne and Holland (1968) claim

Answer 6

that pots in psychological studies have learned to distrust experimenters because they know that the true purpose of the study may be disguised

Question 7

What did Blass (1999) carry out

Answer 7

a statistical analysis of obedient studies between 1961 and 1983.

Question 8

What did Blass (1999) find

Answer 8

By carrying out a correlational analysis relating each studies year of publication and the amount of obedience it found, he discovered no relationship whatsoever