Milgram ( psychology being investigated/ backround)

Question 1

Social pressure definition

Answer 1

• The influence of an indivdual/ group on another individual/ group
• Social pressure created by obedience to authority can have negative consequences.

Question 2

What are the different forms of social pressure?

Answer 2

• Explicit (orders/ threats)
• Implicit (the desire to conform)

Question 3

Obedience

Answer 3

• Basic part of human social structure.
• Aimed to investigate the psychological mechanisms of obedience

Question 4

Destructive obedience definition

Answer 4

• Obedience with the potential to cause psychological or physical harm(injury) to another.

Question 5

Describe the backround of the study.

Answer 5

• Milgram based this study on the holocaust where jewish people were systematically killed by the Nazis under the authority of Hitler.
• Milgram aimed to challenged the “Germans are differnt hypothesis”
• and propose a situational explanation that many who people who found themselves in a simialr situation would harm or even kill others. Under the orders of an authority figure.

Question 6

Germans are different hypothesis definition

Answer 6

• The idea that German’s unique disposition made them more capable of destructive obedience than other nationalities.

other nationalities, such as American people, would have not followed those orders