social influence - obedience

Question 1

Milgram procedure

Answer 1

• was testing obedience to authority
• the pps were told they would randomly be assigned ‘teacher’ or ‘learner’ but all were assigned teacher.
• the learner was performing a word pairing/memory task. If they got the pairs wrong the teacher had to give an electric shock.
• the electric shock increased by 15 volts each time.