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Obedience,, Milgram's aim was to - Coggle Diagram
Obedience,
Milgram
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Milgram used confederates to deceive the real participants into thinking they were really giving electric shocks to the confederates, when in reality it was only a sound track playing. This experiment was conducted in a closed lab environment, meaning the experiment lacks external validity.
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agentic state- when you no longer see yourself as an individual but as a agent to the authority figure they are following
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Situational explanation for obedience: (External factors)
Situational explanations for obedience focus on external factors that affect the likelihood that someone will obey orders. Examples of situational factors in Milgram's research are proximity, location and uniform. 
Location Milgram's study: Originally done at Yale now done in a 'run down' office obedience dropped under 50% as the prestigious uni environment provides more legitimacy and authority. The building might not represent a high status meaning that authority decreases too.
Milgrim's aim
Milgram wanted to research how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person.
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Legitimacy of Authority - People in certain positions hold more authority than others. The authority that they have is agreed by society. A down side is that people are given authority who may want to punish others
dispositional explanations for obedience
these are internal factors that effect obedience
- level of self esteem
low self esteem results in more authorities behaviour
authoritarian personality: one limitation is the fact that it cannot be applied to the majority of a country's population
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