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Method

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Controlled observation

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Aim

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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

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Participants and pay

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40 males

Payed $4 an hour + 50c travel fare

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Location

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New Haven, Connecticut

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Sample

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Volunteer

Newspaper articles and mail shots

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Age

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20-50 years old

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Procedure

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  • drew lots from a fixed draw to provoke empathy
  • taken to another room where the teacher is given a sample 40v shock
  • teacher watches learner get strapped in and told it will be painful but cause no damage
  • learner explains heart condition
  • adjacent rooms and teacher tests on word pairs
  • a voice recording was played of screaming
  • participants told they must finish
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How many left?

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14

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Examples of qualitative data?

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“I can’t go on with this”

“It’s crazy”

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When was the experiment considered to be finished?

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When they walked out or had administered 3 x 450v shocks

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Confederate roles?

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  • Fake experimenter- man in 50s
    - grey lab coat
    - stern looking
  • Mr. Wallis- 50+accountant
    - plays the learner
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Debrief

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Participants interviewed, reassured of their behaviour and met with the learner

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Results

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All participants went to 300v
If they went to 390v they completed it
All exhibited nervous behaviour eg seizure, sweating

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Reasoning

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Yale university- prestigious and worthy purpose

The learner volunteered = outgoing

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Reliability

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Completely standardised procedures

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Ethics (3)

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Deception
The right to withdraw (14 left)
Protection of Participants (follow up on harm)

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Ecological Validity

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Low - lack of mundane realism (everyday life)

Low - experimental realism (forgot they were in a study)

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Usefulness and application to everyday life

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Helped understand human behaviour
People review their value system
Explains why people obey police and emergency staff
Explains why anti soldiers killed despite conscience

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Advantages of Method

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First hand data

Controlled environment

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Disadvantages of method

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Artificial scenario 
Observer bias
Volunteer sample (all confident) 
Unrepresentative sample
Ethnocentric