Obedience Flashcards
(26 cards)
How many ppts did Milgram have and where did he find them?
40 male ppts, recruited through newspaper adverts.
What did Milgrams shocks range to?
15 to 450 volts which is deadly.
What were the findings of Milgrams study?
No ppts stopped below 300V, 12.5% stopped at 300V and 65% continued to the highest voltage.
What were the ethical concerns about Milgrams research?
Deception made the ppts extremely stressed, after debrief they were calmer, many ppts felt they couldn’t withdraw due to taking money, which could affect results.
What were Milgrams 3 situational variables?
Proximity, location, uniform.
What were the results when teacher and learner were in the same room and touching?
Obedience dropped from 65% to 40% in same room, placing the hand on the shock pad dropped obedience to 30%.
When experimenter gave instructions over the phone what was obedience rates?
Obedience dropped to 20.5% where the ppts would pretend to give shocks or give smaller ones than specified.
What was obedience rate when location changed?
In a rundown building obedience rate dropped to 47.5%, no longer associated with a prestigious uni.
Wha was obedience rate when changing the uniform of experimenter?
Obedience dropped to 20% after changing uniform from lab coat to a “ppt” in normal clothes.
What were Bickman’s 3 different uniforms and what were results?
Asked people to perform tasks, picking up litter, people were most likely to obey security uniform instead of milkman or formal outfit.
Wha was obedience rate when changing the uniform of experimenter?
Obedience dropped to 20% after changing uniform from lab coat to a “ppt” in normal clothes.
Why may Milgrams study lack internal validity?
May have guessed aim and behaved accordingly instead of behaving due to procedure, demand characteristics, eg, unbelievable that an experimenter would be replaced with a normal man.
What is the definition of agentic state?
Mental state where people feel no responsibility for their actions as they were just following orders from authority.
What is the definition of autonomous state?
Mental state where a person feels fully in control of their independent actions and holds responsibility for them.
What is moral strain?
People feeling stressed or anxious due to knowing their actions may be wrong but still following orders from an authority, they feel they cannot disobey.
What is an agentic shift?
The shift between agentic state and autonomous state after seeing someone who we perceive as a legitimate authority figure.
How is authority legitimised?
People who hold power, teachers/parents, have power legitimised by their uniform or settings.
What did Blass and Schmitt research?
Showed students Milgrams original study and asked who was at fault, they said experimenter due to his authority, he should have stopped the harm to learner.
What did Adorno want to research?
Antisemitism during WW2, believing obedience was dispositional.
How does AP start?
Strict parenting and discipline during childhood, creating hostility but is instead of parents is placed towards others (minorities).
What is used to measure AP, what’s an issue with this method?
F-scale, can be bias due to ppts getting bored and clicking strongly agree which would increase their points.
What are 3 characteristics of someone with AP?
Extremely submissive to those viewed as authority, hostile towards those ‘inferior’, inflexible mindset.
What were the findings of Adornos study?
Those who scores highly identified with strong people, hostile towards weaker people, had strong, distinctive stereotypical views.
Why can AP fill in the blanks for Milgrams study?
Due to 35% resisting authority, situational factors cannot explain obedience alone, meaning it shows there is other reasons for why people may obey, dispositional.
