Obedience

• Who produced a procedure to access obedience levels and the date?

  Milgram in 1963
• What is obedience?

  A form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order
• Who was chosen for this experiment?

  40 American men
• What was the baseline procedure for obedience?

  Each volunteer was introduced to a confederate

  Volunteer was teacher and confederate was learner, there was also an experimenter present

  The E ordered T to give increasingly strong shocks to L (located in different room)

  15 voltz up to 450 voltz

  Shocks were fake but T doesn’t know this so L faked reaction
• What was the experimenter wearing?

  A grey lab coat
• What volt did every participant go up to?

  300
• How many stopped at 300 voltz?

  12.5%
• How many continued to the highest level?

  65%
• What data did Milgram collect?

  Qualitative data
• What did this qualitative data include?

  Signs of extreme tension, some were seen to ’sweat, tremble, stutter, bite lips, groan, dig nails into hands’ and three had ‘full-blown uncontrollable seizures‘
• Before the experiment he asked 14 students to predict and they estimated what?

  No more than 3% would go to 450 volts
• What does this previous data show?

  That the findings were unexpected
• What was the result of the follow up questionnaire given to the participants?

  84% we’re glad to of participated
• What did Milgram conclude from his experiment about Germans?

  There not different
• Why can we see the Germans were no different than the Americans?

  Because they were willing to obey orders even if they would harm another person