Milgram et al

• • Overall aim: To investigate how obedient people would be to orders from a person in authority that would result in pain and harm to another person.
• Specific aim: To see how large an electric shock participants would give to a helpless man when ordered to.
• Dispositional hypothesis

  • is an approach to study human personality and behavior. It is the measurement of steady patterns of habit in an individual's behavior, thoughts, and emotions.
• Situational hypotheses

  • (also known as External Factors) are influences that do not occur from within the individual but from elsewhere like the environment and others around you.
• The IV is still deliberately manipulated by the researcher but participants are no aware that they are participating in a research experiment
• 4 prods used in all of the tests 

  “Please continue” or “Please go on” 

  “The experiment requires you to continue” 

  “It is absolutely essential that you continue” 

  “You have no choice, you must go on”