Milgram (1963)

Question 1

The reason Milgram carried out the experiment was

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to test the ‘Germans are different’ hypothesis and to attempt to explain the horrors carried out by Nazis

Question 2

The aim of the experiment was

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to investigate what level of obedience would be shown when participants were told by an authority figure to administer electric shocks to another person

Question 3

How many participants were there?

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40 Males aged 20-50 from the New Haven area

Question 4

Participants believed the study was to

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see if punishment impacted learning

Question 5

Milgram created a fake shock generator which had voltages from 15V to 450V and he gave participants a sample shock of

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45V

Question 6

Participants were told that the shocks could be

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painful but couldn’t cause any permanent tissue damage

Question 7

The participant was asked to read a series of word pairs to the learner and administer electric shock of

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increasing voltage for every incorrect answer

Question 8

The learner would be respond in ways such as

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moaning
requests to be excused
agonised screams
kicking the wall and begging to be released

Question 9

Participant were given verbal prods such as

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1. ‘Please continue’
2. ‘The experiment requires that you continue’
3. ‘It is absolutely essential that you continue’
4. ‘You have no other choice, you must go on’

Question 10

All 40 participants obeyed up to

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300V at which point 5 refused to continue

Question 11

65% of participants gave shocks up to

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450V

Question 12

What signs of stress did some of the participants give during the experiment?

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They sweated, trembled, dug their fingernails into their flesh and visibly shook, 3 had seizures