Variables Affecting Obedience

Question 1

Milgrams study

Answer 1

40 male volunteers
Confederate learner and ppt teacher
Would shock the Confederate if they gave the wrong answer/ were falsely demonstrated to be real prior to study
Experimenter gave 4 prods when they refused

Question 2

Findings

Answer 2

All went to 300v and 65% went up to 450v.
Majority prepared to give lethal shocks to confederate

Question 3

Factors affecting obedience

Answer 3

Proximity
Obedience decreased to 40% when experimenter in a diff room
Location
Prestige of Yale uni
Uniform
Higher status more legitimate

Question 4

AO3

Answer 4

+ external validity from supporting studies as hofling observed nurses where 95% of them obeyed a doctor over the phone to increase dosages

• lack of internal validity as experiment may have been about trust as the experiment was done at yale so ppts trusted that nothing serious would happen to confederate as place was so prestigious
• Lack of ecological validity as the tasks were not like those we would encounter irl for example shooting someone is different from flicking a switch meaning the methodology lacks mundane realism