Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Obedience to Authority with an Authentic Victim by Charles Sheridan and…
-
-
-
Aim/Hypothesis
Could it be that the Milgram Experiment was incorrect and that participants were picking up on the fake shocks?
With real victims, individuals would stop the shock faster than in the Milgram Experiment
Male obedience was similar to that obtained by Milgram. 54% of the male subjects obeyed to the final shock
Results
All female subjects complied with instructions to shock the puppy all the way to the end of the scale.
Subjects were emotionally distressed, exhibiting signs such as coaxing the puppy to escape the shock, pacing from foot to foot, puffing, weeping.
Participants attempted to minimize discomfort to the puppy without confronting the experimenter by shortening the time shocking (which was impossible due to it being on a timer)
-
-
Should the subject stop, they were given verbal prods ranging from "Please continue," to "You must go on, there is no other choice!"
Should the subject refuse, the session was terminated and the subject was debriefed.
An experiment in order to determine the obedience to authority through the impossible task of teaching puppies through electric shock conditioning.
-
-
Subjects were educated about experimenter bias and were told that their role was to prevent experimenter bias by delivering the shock to the puppy as it learned to discriminate between flickering and steady lights
The puppy, placed by the subject, was in front of a one-way mirror that permitted only the subject full view of the puppy. The experimenter was in the same room as the subject.
Subjects were told that their mere participation was enough to ensure course credit, and it was not contingent on shocking the puppy.
The subject was to electrify the grids after each error made by the puppy, increasing the shock by 15 volts per error.
-