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Milgram's variations - Coggle Diagram
Milgram's variations
13: ordinary man
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experimenter explains task as usual and the teacher observes 'Mr Wallace' being strapped in the chair
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experimenter receives a fake phone call calling him away, asks the teacher and confederate recorder to get the learner to learn all the word pairs
once experimenter has gone, the confederate recorder suggests administering shocks that increase 15V every time the learner makes a mistake
10: rundown office block
wanted to test if the setting changed obedience in comparison to prestigious Yale setting in baseline study
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7: telephone call
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found that many pp, lied about what electric shocks they were eliciting
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following the original study, Milgram set out to investigate situational factors which might encourage or discourage dissent
evaluation
S: subsequent research has replicated this findings. Hofling et al, telephone call asked nurses to administer an overdose of the drug Valium. 95% of 22 nurses started to administer the drug
S: controlled, same as the original but with one exception which was the variation
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evaluation
S: increased validity, more naturalistic setting
S- Milgram collected not only quantitative data but also qualitative data in form of audio recordings of dialogue
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evaluation
S: reliable, controlled: same procedure and set up
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not about obedience but trust, trusted experimenter