Obedience

• Obedience-

  Milgrams experiment (1963)-

  • 40 American male volunteers told it was a study on memory.
  • Rigged experiment where the confederates were the ‘Learner’ and the ‘Experimenter’ (dressed in a lab coat), and the participant was the ‘Teacher’.
  • E ordered T (participant) to give an increasing shock to L in another room (15-450 volts) which were fake.
  • Prods were used to keep T obedient – 1- ‘pleasure continue/go on’, 2- ‘the experiment requires that you continue’, 3- it is essential that you continue’, 5- ‘you have no other choice, you must go on’.
• Obedience-

  Milgrams experiment (1963)-

  • Found that everyone put the volts to 300, 12.5% stopped there, 65% continued to the highest level of 450 volts.
  • Used qualitative data along with observations; P were tense, and anxious with some having seizures.
  • 14 psych students predicted 3% going to 450V (unexpected results), with a debrief afterwards making sure their behaviour was normal, then followed up with a questionnaire.
• Obedience- Milgrams experiment (1963)-

  S- Beauvois et al (2012) replicated the findings in a french documentary, this showed that Milgrams findings were valid and not just from the circumstances.

  W- Baumrind (1964) argues that deceiving participants has serious effects on the participants and researchers.
• Obedience- Milgrams experiment (1963)-

  CPS- Sheridan and King (1972)  used students shocking a puppy – 54% of men and 100% of women gave what was said to be a lethal shock , making mil grams study genuine since people were the same when the shocks were real.

  CPW- Perry (2013) confirmed that only 2 anticipates believed the shocks were real, so the participants were responding to demand characteristics by trying to fulfil the aims of the experiment.