Milgram evaluation

Milgram evaluation

1. Sample Bias

   • -Not representitive
     • -All New Haven
     • -Self Selected sampling
     • - All men
     • -All white
   • +Large Sample Size
     • +Variety of Jobs
       • 37.5% Manual workers
       • 20% white collar workers
       • 22.5% professionals
     • +Variety of ages
   • 40 participants

2. Research Method

   • -Ethics
   • + Data
   • +Reliability
   • - Sample Bias
   • +Validity

3. Data

   • + Lots of qual
     • He recorded their behaviour changes
       • 3 participants had seizures
       • Many experienced extreme tensions, sweating..etc
   • +Lots of Quant
     • Lots of Numbers
       • All 40 participants went to 300v
       • 65% went all the way
       • 9 stopped at 315v

4. Validity

   • - Lacks Ecological Validity
     • Done in a Lab
   • +Valid
     • Shown by participants reactions
       • Sweating..etc

5. Ethnocentrism

   • - All were white males
   • - All were from New Haven
   • +Had a variety of jobs

6. Reliability

   • + Standardised
     • Same volts and switches for everyone
       • 40 switches
         • They go up by 15v
     • Uses same screams
       • Pretends theyre real from the confederate

7. Practical Applications

   • + He shows us how authority can effect people's behaviours
   • -He causes physical and emotional harm
     • Emotion- stress
     • Physical- Seizures