obedience (milgram)

Mil gram wanted to understand why German soldiers were able to commit

Procedure

• 40 us males To take part in research at Yale university

• Adverts in newspaper to take part in research on memory

• Paid 4$

• Each volunteer was introduced to another participant (confederate- mr Wallace)

• Drew lots to see who would be the teacher and who the learner

• Draw was fixed so the confederate was always the learner

• if a learner got an answer wrong the teacher had to shock the learner with an electric shock

• Increased voltage each time

Findings

• 100% of ps gave up to 300v

• 12.5% of ps stop here

• The rest went to 450v

• Most ps were stressed

Prediction

• Students estimate that no more than 3% of ps would continue to 450

• People underestimate obedience

A03

RESEARCH SUPPORT- Sheridan and king found ps would give a real shock to a puppy in response to orders from an experimenter. 54% of males and 100% females gave a real shock

LOW INTERNAL VALIDITY-milgram reported that 75% of his ps thought the shocks were real. Orne and Holland argues that ps didn’t believe this and were play acting