social influence - Milgram Flashcards

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what is obedience

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  • individual follow a direct order
  • person issuing the order has authority
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when did Milgram conduct his study

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1963

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what was Milgram’s procedure

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  • 40 American men voluntered for a study at Yale based on memory
  • each volunteer introduced to a confederate who acted as the experiementer
  • draw was rigged so the teacher would always be the participant and learner a confederate
  • room had a shock generator
  • teacher had to test the learner on their recall on word pairs
  • if the answer was incorrect the teacher would administer an electric shock
  • pre-recorded screams as the shocks increased
  • experimenter had 4 verbal prods
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what were the findings of Milgrims experiment

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  • 14 participants had nervous laughing fits
  • all participants delivered shocks up to 300v
  • 12.5% stopped at 300v
  • 65% continued until 450v
  • 35% resisted pressure and backed out between 300-450v
  • sent a questionnaire later on and 84% were glad to have taken part
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what did Milgram conclude and aimed

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  • investigate if the Nazis were just simply following orders
  • German people aren’t different
  • participants were willing to obey orders even when they might harm another person
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GRAVE Evaluation

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Generalisability
- only used white male American participants
- used a volunteer sample
- low ecological validity - carried out in a lab

Reliability
- replicated his own study using variables
- Hofling et al
- Bickman

Application
- explain the holocaust
- Abu Ghraib

Validity
- lacked experimental realism - pps may have not found it real
- demand characteristics
- lacked mundane realism - didn’t resemble real life

Ethics
- failed to gain informed consent
- coerced participants into continuing
- difficult to withdraw
- asked psychological community to predict the findings of the study
- psychological harm - full debriefing and questionnaire

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