Milgram evaluation

Sample Bias
1. -Not representitive
  1. -All New Haven
  2. -Self Selected sampling
  3. - All men
  4. -All white
2. +Large Sample Size
  1. +Variety of Jobs
    1. 37.5% Manual workers
    2. 20% white collar workers
    3. 22.5% professionals
  2. +Variety of ages
3. 40 participants
Research Method
1. -Ethics
2. + Data
3. +Reliability
4. - Sample Bias
5. +Validity
Data
1. + Lots of qual
  1. He recorded their behaviour changes
    1. 3 participants had seizures
    2. Many experienced extreme tensions, sweating..etc
2. +Lots of Quant
  1. Lots of Numbers
    1. All 40 participants went to 300v
    2. 65% went all the way
    3. 9 stopped at 315v
Validity
1. - Lacks Ecological Validity
  1. Done in a Lab
2. +Valid
  1. Shown by participants reactions
    1. Sweating..etc
Ethnocentrism
1. - All were white males
2. - All were from New Haven
3. +Had a variety of jobs
Reliability
1. + Standardised
  1. Same volts and switches for everyone
    1. 40 switches
      1. They go up by 15v
  2. Uses same screams
    1. Pretends theyre real from the confederate
Practical Applications
1. + He shows us how authority can effect people's behaviours
2. -He causes physical and emotional harm
  1. Emotion- stress
  2. Physical- Seizures

Resource summary

	Created by Maisy Cooling about 8 years ago