Obedience
Migrim Cia 63) Baseline obedience study
Baseline procedure
Stanley Milgram recruited 40 American male participants supposedly for a study of memory .
Each participant arrived at Milgrims lab and drew lots of their role .
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Cmr Wallace) was
A confederate always the Learner while the true participant was the
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teacher the teacher could hear but not see the Learner :
5-perimeter
confederate)
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An '
C another more a lab coat .
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increasingly
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The teacher had to Learner an severe electric shock time he
give the each
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made a mistake on a task .
The '
Shocks increased in 15 -
volt step ups to 450 volts .
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The shocks were
fake but the shock machine was labelled to make them look
increasingly severe .
If wished verbal to
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to stop the E- ✗ prod
the Teacher , perimeter gave a continue .
Baseline
grindings
12.51 C .
5 participants) stopped at 300 NOIB .
65% continued to 450 volts C highest level)
observations Cqwalatitive data) participants showed tension 3 had
signs of extreme .
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full blown uncontrollable seizures
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.
Before the study mil
grim asked 14 psychology students to predict how they thought
naive 3-1
the
participants would respond .
The students estimated no more than .
would continue to 450 volts .C so the base wine
findings were unexpected)
After the study ,
participants were debriefed .
Follow -
up questionnaire showed that 84%
were
glad they had participated .
conclusions
we
obey legitimate authority
behaviour
that that our
rig even means
causes harm to someone else .
Certain situational factors encourage obedience cmilgnim investigated
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