A01

• obediance 


  form of social influence whereby a direct order is followed by an individual, usually the person issuing the order has authority 
• aim

  -       Milgram’s aim was to find out why the German soldiers followed hitler’s order and killed Jews, whether it was normal to obey such terrible orders
• Milgram experiment


  1. Randomly selected 40 male volunteers

  2. Participants were given the role as the teacher every time and the learner were a confederate

  3. Participants believed they had equal chance of being teacher or learner by random allocation

  4. Participants asked confederate learners a series of questions

  5. When confederate gave the wrong answer, had to give him an electric shock

  6. Voltage of shocks ranged from 300v to 450v going up in 15v increments, 330v was marked as lethal

  7. Shocks were not real, and the confederate was acting via crying, screaming etc.

  8. The experimenter gave a series of prods when participants refused to administer shocks
• The Milgram experiment occurred in a Yale University lab
• findings

  • 100% of participants went to 300v
  • 65% went to 450v
  • found ordinary people are obediance even when asked to do something that goes about their own morality