Milgram - BSF

Milgram's aim was to investigate whether ___ would follow orders and give an innocent person a potentially harmful electric shock.

• soliders

• ordinary people

• males

• teachers

How did Milgram recruit participants?

• random selection

• contacted through telephone calls

• newspaper advert

• approached people in the library

How did Milgram ensure the real ppt was always the teacher?

• Asked the confederate to choose their role

• Fixed the draw

• Experimenter allocated the roles

The teacher had to shock the learner every time they got an answer wrong. What percentage of ppts went to the full 450 V?

• 30%

• 45%

• 50%

• 65%

100% of ppts went to which shock level?

• 100 V

• 200 V

• 300 V

• 400 V

A weakness is that Milgram only used male participants. What is this called?

• Ethnocentric

• Androcentric

An example of how Milgram's study was standardised was that...

• the experiment lasted the same length of time

• everything was recorded

• all male ppts were asked to wear the same thing

• the same verbal prods were used

A weakness is that ppts may not have believed shocks were real. This decreases...

• Internal validity

• Population validity

• Generalisability

• Ecological validity

How did we see protection from harm was breached?

• Ppts got angry at Milgram

• Ppts showed distress; trembling, biting lips etc...

• Ppts reported high levels of anxiety in post study interviews

• Only 5% said they were happy to have taken part

What is obedience?

• rejecting the demands of an authority figure.

• taking responsibility for your own actions.

• yielding to the demands of an authority figure.