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Milgram's Study (1963) - Coggle Diagram
Milgram's Study (1963)
Aim
Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities, for example, Germans in WWII.
Researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person.
Procedure
A confederate (Mr Wallace) was always the 'learner' whilst the true participant was the 'teacher.' The learner was strapped up to electrodes, the teacher had to give an increasing electric shock each time he made a mistakeon a task.
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Recruited 40 male participants through newspaper ads, the ads said he was looking for participants for a memory study
(Participants were aged between 20-50 years old. Raging jobs and payed $4.50)
Shocks started at 15 volts and rose to 450. At 300 volts, the learner pounded his head against the wall and gave no response to the next question.
The teacher turned to the experimenter for help, the experimenter would give prods to help move the study onwards.
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Conclusion
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Prior to the study, Milgram asked 14 psychology students to predict the results, they estimated no more than 3% would go all the way to 450 volts. Therefore the findings were unexpected.
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