situational variables affecting conformity

• Key figures in milgram and also bushman’s study?

  • 40 pps
  • 450 volts in 15V increments
  • 12.5% stopped at 300V (banging)
  • 65% conf rate
  • 48% location variation
  • 40% prox variation
  • 30% touch prox
  • 21% exp absent
  • 10% two peer rebels
  • 2.5% teachers discretion

  Bushman- different people asking by-passers to provide spare change for another confederate who had "expired parking meter"

  72% police

  52% beggar

  48% buisness executive
• AO3 for situational variables

  • ☹️ lack of internal validity- people may have guessed true aims and gone to a higher shock level as they knew exp wasn’t real, stats were way higher than predicted to be- there were some doubters about the shocks (Perry)
  • ☹️ ethics- Braumind criticised for distress caused. Deception, psychological harm etc
  • ☹️ disclaimer against proximity- reserve police batt 101- offered killing Jews or doing other tasks- small amount chose other tasks
  • ☹️ can’t be generalised to every day obedience in real life - lab with scientists. Real life obedience harder to achieve- takes longer, maj of people probably wouldn’t commit such crimes in reality
• describe the procedure of Milgram's study

  • 40 pps
  • 1 naive pp and 2 confederates
  • one confederate introduced as another volunteer pp
  • Teacher- shocked learner if they got anything wrong. Learner- learned word pairs. Experimenter- encourages the teacher to keep going with the shocks, acts in control of the situation, wore white lab coat
  • 450V was labelled XXX
  • voice feedback study- learner gave mainly wrong answers and received shocks in silence until 300 volts, banged on wall and proceeded to not answer the next question
  • predicted that only 1 in 1000 would go to the 450V level