Situational Variables affecting Obedience - Milgram

Cards (4)

  • outline Milgram
    - 40 males,20-50 yrs old, volunteers via newspaper for a study on 'memory'
    - ppts = teacher, confederated = professor and learner, ppt told by professor to deliver electric shocks (15-450V) when learner answered correctly
    - 300v = learner voiced distress and refused to go on
    - ppts unaware that they were not actually administering an electric shock
  • results, Milgram
    - ppts distressed but obeyed
    - 100% to 300V, 12.5% stopped at 300V, 65% to full 450V
  • outline Milgram's replications
    - proximity: obedience dropped to 40% when learner was in the same room as the ppt
    - location: obedience dropped to 47.6% when conducted in a rundown office block (lack of LOA) compared to Yale University
    - uniform: professor replaced by confederate in normal clothes, obedience dropped to 20% (lack of LOA)
  • A03 Milgram
    - lacks ecological validity and mundane realism
    - Hofling: 21/22 real nurses obeyed a confederate Dr phone call order to give double the max dose of an unfamiliar drug, field study = high ecological validity, mundane realism
    - Bickman (1974)