Milgram Experiment

What is obedience?

• rejecting the demands of an authority figure.

• taking responsibility for your own actions.

• yielding to the demands of an authority figure.

Conformity ....

• relies on social power.

• relies on the need to be socially accepted.

• rebelling against an organisation.

Milgram said ...

• In everyday lives we obediently follow instructions to prevent accidents which results in social order.

• Obedience is necessary for the smooth running of society.

• People live obediently to protect themselves from danger.

What was the aim to Milgram's study?

• To see if ordinary people could stand being given harmful electric shots.

• To test the average persons ability to make a important decision on there own.

• To investigate whether ordinary people would follow orders and give an innocent person a potentially harmful electric shock.

How many participants were involved in the experiment?

• 60

• 20

• 40

• 30

Where did the experiment take place?

• Harvard University

• Stanford University

• Columbia University

• Yale University

Participants were told the purpose of the experiment was ...

• to see how people learn better through punishment.

• to see if ordinary people could give innocent people harmful electric shocks.

• to see what level of electric shock an individual could experience safely.

The participants were allocated the roles of ...

• teachers

• learners

• a mixture of both

The teachers were told the electric shocks would ...

• be painful and potentially harmful.

• be very dangerous.

• be painful but not dangerous.

• cause no discomfort to the learners.

Participants were asked to teach ...

• math equations.

• retention of matching rhyming words.

• retention of matched paired words.