obedience

• who assessed obedience levels

  milgram
• outline baseline procedure for obedience

  -40 american men volunteered to take part in supposedly memory

  -they were introduced to another participant but was actually a confederate of milgram

  -drew lots to see who would be teacher and learner however the draw was fixed so the participant was always the teacher

  -teacher had to give learner electric shock everytime learner made mistake

  -the shocks increased up to 450 v and were labelled as dangerous however they were actually fake
• explain the baseline findings for milgrams obedience study

  -every participant delivered shock up to 300v

  -12.5% stopped at 300v

  -65% continued to 450v

  -milgram also collected qualitative data including observations e.g tremble, sweat
• how do we know that the findings were unexpected

  -milgram asked 14 psych students to predict participants behaviour

  -they estimated that no more than 3% would continue to 450v
• what did milgram conclude abt germans

  -germans are no different, as american students were willingly to obey orders even if it means causing harm

  -he suspected they were factors that encouraged obedience so conducted further studies