MILGRAM

Agentic state-When people follow the will of others and:

Claim no responsibilities for there actions

Destructive obedience- Behaving how another tells you, in a way that causes:

Harm

After WW2 people developed a ___ are different dispositional hypothesis

Germans are different

Germans are different hypothesis- there is something uniquely wrong with the:

Character of Germans

AIM- Investigate the extent to which people ___

Obey legitimate authority

AIM- to investigate the ‘Germans are different’___

Dispositional hypothesis

AIM- investigate whether the __ makes people obey

Situation

SAMPLE-_males, aged between _ and _ from New Haven

40,20,50

Sampling Technique:

Self selected/volunteer

Research Method:

Controlled observation

How data was gathered: (3 options)

1. Structured observation

2. Unstructured observation

3. Self report

Confederate: experimenter- 31 year old stern __ who wore a grey lab coat

Biology teacher

Confederate: learner- 47 year old mild mannered, likeable __

Accountant

The experimenter told the real and confederate participants they are participating in an experiment about:

Punishment and learning

1. Teacher and learner were taken to __ rooms

Adjacent

2. Teacher (real participant) had to stop the learner in to the electric cables before returning to the _

Shock generator

3. The teacher received a trial chock of _V

45

4. Begins with _V and increasing in _V increments

15,15

Up to __V pre recorded sounds of the learner asking to stop were played

300

At 300V the learner pounded on the wall which was repeated at __V. After that it was silent

315

If the participant asks the experimenter what to do, the experiment responded with prepared __

Prods

If the participant inquired about the ___, other prods were used.

Welfare of the learner

RESULTS- All participants went up to __V and then _ participants refused to go further

300, 5

RESULTS- at __V only _ participants refused to go further

375, 9

RESULTS- __ participants went to __V

26, 450

One participant had a violent _

Seizure

Autonomous state-

Actions based on own values and conscience

CONCLUSION- people have 2 ____ developed as a result of living in a hierarchical society.

States of consciousness

CONCLUSION- people will obey with out limitations of conscience, when they believe that an order comes from a ____.

Legitimate authority

CONCLUSION- it is __ not __ that’s causes destructive obedience.

situation, disposition