8D experiments on obedience

Question 1

Milgrim’s aim

Answer 1

To see if individuals would obey an authority figure who was instructing them to inflict harm on another person.

Question 2

Milgrim’s method

Answer 2

1. The participant meets experimenter and confederate and experiment is explained. 2. Names are drawn from the hat which is rigged to make sure the participant is always the teacher. 3. Student is taken into a separate room (can hear not see). 4. Experimenter demonstrates that shock are real by administering the participant with small electric shock. 5. Participant (teacher) begins to ask questions to which the confederate (student) answers incorrectly. Experimenter orders participant to administer a shock for every wrong answer, going up each time. 6. Student exhibits set fake responses of pain. 7. Experiment ends and participant is informed that the confederate was never actually harmed. 8. Participant is interviewed and debriefed.

Question 3

Milgrim’s results

Answer 3

5 out of 40 participants stopped adiminstering shocks at 300V.
14 out of 40 refused to administer a certain level of voltage to the student, therefor 35% disobeying the commands of the experimenter.
26 out of 40 (65%) participants continued administering shocks up to maximum 450V.

Question 4

Milgrim’s conclusion

Answer 4

Miglrim concluded that people have a tendency to obey individuals who are perceived to have authority (even if it means inflicting harm on another person).