RESEARCH

• WHAT WAS THE AIM OF MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  investigate process of obedience by seeing how far participants would go when an authority figure told them to administer electric shocks to another person
• WHAT TYPE OF EXPERIMENT WAS MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  controlled observation
• WHAT TYPE OF SAMPLING WAS USED IN MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  volunteer sampling
• SAMPLE OF MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  20 - 50 years old, Americans
• WHAT WAS THE AUTHORITY FIGURE IN MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  experimenter (labcoat)
• WHAT WAS THE VOLUNTEER IN MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  teacher
• WHAT WAS THE STUDENT IN MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  victim
• METHOD OF MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  1. Participants met and drew role (all teacher)
  2. Given sample of light electric shock
  3. For every wrong answer given by the student, teacher administers an electric shock
  4. Teacher and student can communicate but not see each other
  5. Shocks start at 15V and increased to 450V at 15V intervals
  6. Tape recorder played 'responses' of students
  7. Teacher given 4 prompts from experimenter to continue if hesitant
  8. Experiment stopped after administered maximum voltage 3 times or were given 4 prompts
• FINDINGS OF MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  100% of participants reached 300V

  65% of participants reached 450V

  -> however participants showed extreme signs of tension (sweating/ trembling/ digging nails into skin)
• CONCLUSION OF MILGRAM'S RESEARCH?

  people obey those in authority even if it means harming an innocent individual