Milgram

Question 1

What is the meaning of obedience?

Answer 1

Following a direct order.

Question 2

What is the meaning of compliance?

Answer 2

Going along with what someone want you to do

Question 3

What is conformity?

Answer 3

Behaving in the same way as those around you

Question 4

What is Destructive obedience?

Answer 4

Following in order to harm someone

Question 5

What is the meaning of genocide?

Answer 5

The systematic attempt to wipe out and ethnic group

Question 6

What is dispositional hypothesis?

Answer 6

Explanations that focus on the individuals involved in social situation

Question 7

What is the situation hypothesis?

Answer 7

IExplanations that focus on the situation itself

Question 8

What is a sampling method

Answer 8

The way that people in the sample were selected

Question 9

What is a sample?

Answer 9

The group of people who took part in the study

Question 10

What percentage did the psychology students predict people would obey ?

Answer 10

1.2%

Question 11

What was the real aim of Milgram study

Answer 11

To investigate what level of obedience will be shown when participants are told by an authority figure to a minister electric shocks to another person

Question 12

What was the stated aim of Milgram study?

Answer 12

To study the effects of punishment on learning

Question 13

What was the DVD of Milgram study

Answer 13

Obedience rates

Question 14

Describe the sample of Milgram study

Answer 14

• self selected
• 40 males aged 20-50, from various backgrounds
• Paid £4.50

Question 15

What is the key theme of Milgram study?

Answer 15

Responses to people in authority

Question 16

Give examples of qualitative data from Milgram study

Answer 16

• Nervous giggles
• sweating
• shaking
• shouting
• at least one had a seizure

Question 17

Give the quantitative results of Milgram study

Answer 17

• 65% went all the way to 400 V

- 100% went all the way to 300 V

Question 18

What was the baseline of Milgram study?

Answer 18

1.2%

Question 19

What Ethical guidelines did Milgram break?

Answer 19

• Informed consent
• protection of participants
• right to withdraw

Question 20

How did Milgram Break the guideline of informed consent?

Answer 20

Participants were unaware of the real aim of the study

Question 21

How did Milgram breakThe ethical guidelines of protection of the participant

Answer 21

We can see from the quantitive data that the participants were caused distress

Question 22

How did Milgram break the ethical guideline of right to withdraw?

Answer 22

Participants felt with the money, products, and volunteering that they couldn’t withdraw

Question 23

Why did Milgram break the ethical guidelines of informed consent?

Answer 23

To avoid demand characteristics

Question 24

Why did Milgram break the ethical guideline protection of participants?

Answer 24

They were short-term effects, he didn’t expect it, it was important to try prevent atrocities