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Milgram on Obedience - Coggle Diagram
Milgram on Obedience
Procedure
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The naive ppt was introduced to the 'learner' (the confederate) and they were allocated the role of teacher or learner by picking tickets
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They were then both taken into the lab, where the learner was strapped into an electric chair 'to prevent excessive movement' when the shocks were delivered
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The experimenter told both the learner and the teacher: "Although the shocks can be extremely painful, they cause no permanent damage"
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Background
Milgram was of Jewish descent, so the events of WWII were of particular importance and relevance to him
As a result, he wanted to explore the 'issue; of obedience
He believes that the inhumane obedience of Nazi Germany could be explained by the fact that Germans, by disposition, are much more obedient that people from other cultures
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Milgram's initial intention was the to run his study using German ppts but wanted to run a pilot study first
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Method
Design
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Milgram did call this an experiment, but modern researchers are much more careful with using this term
Materials/apparatus
A shock generator was used, set up with 30 switches labelled with a number from 15 V to 450 (increments of 15)
The switches were also labelled to describe the shock intensity (Slight shock/moderate/strong/Danger:Severe shock/XXX)
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Aims
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To demonstrate the power of a legitimate authority even when a command requires destructive behaviour