Milgram

Procedure:

2 participants were assigned either the role of a teacher (this was always given to the true participant) or learner (a confederate called Mr. Wallace).
The teacher was then asked by the experimenter to administer electric shocks to the learner each time he gave the wrong answer, from 15 - 450 volts.
He have out prods when the participant refused to administer a shock

Results:

Evaluation

Lacked ecological validity: as it's a lab study its artificial, cannot be generalised the finding to a real life setting, as people do not usually receive orders to hurt another person in real life.
Gender bias: he only used males in his study so cannot generalised to females.
Deception: the participants actually believed they were shocking a real person, and were unaware the learner was a confederate of Milgram's. Apparently 83.7% said that they were “glad to be in the experiment”
Protection of participants : may have the potential to cause psychological harm. Signs of tension included trembling, sweating, stuttering, laughing nervously, biting lips and digging fingernails into palms of hands. 3Full blown seizures; one so violent that the experiment was stopped.

	Erstellt von Sankavi Sriranjan vor etwa 9 Jahre

A level Psychology Notiz am Psychology - Paper 1, erstellt von Sankavi Sriranjan am 08/10/2017.