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Social Psych, Issues with the study, METHOD:, The results are surprising…
Social Psych
Introduction
BEHAVIORAL STUDY OF OBEDIENCE
Stanley Milgram
Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioral Study of obedience. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67(4), 371–378.
Thesis Statement: Researching the destructive obedience in a laboratory
this experiment is interesting important because it tries to give an answer to why seemingly good people do bad things when ordered.
[First find out what I'll be discussing then put in the intro as an overview. ]
Issues with the study
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Ethical Concerns
Informed Consent: The participants that were taking part in the study didn't give anything even remotely resembling informed consent and they were put under a very stressful condition
METHOD:
Body (Analysis)
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Main findings, arguments (conc)
First finding - Extreme obedience even though they weren't being forced. - the researchers didn't anticipate the extremity of it - predicted scores were wrong.
An unexpected effect: The tension this experiment put people under was immense - One observer noted that a poised confident man entered - within 20 mins was reduced to a stuttering wreck rapidly approaching an emotional breakdown.
Milgram concluded that the level of obedience show must have had something to do with the conditions the teachers were put under and continued to provide 13 examples.
One teacher (participant) and one learner (accomplice) were put into separate rooms. The teacher's job was to read word pairs to the learner and if the answer was wrong the teacher had to administer a shock to the learner. -
For every wrong answer, the learner increased the voltage of the shock. Shock level divided into 7 categories - Ranged from 15 volts to 450 volts
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The results are surprising because not a single person stopped on or before the predicted numbers. Lvl of obedience show is far superior to what was expected.
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Another thing to consider is the high amount of stress the 'teachers' were put under - this led to some people have full blows seizures
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