Stanley Milgram examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors.
I. Participants: May 1962 the experiment is conducted in an elegant interaction laboratory at Yale university, the participants are 40 white males who are between the ages of 20 and 50 who were from the New Haven area
II. Apparatus and materials: Stanley Milgram used a machine( shock generator) to test his theories on obedience, the machine in ascending order had a row of buttons marked to the voltage 1 person would inflict upon another person.The shock generator went from 15 volts to 450 volts and a …show more content…
Basically If the learner(knowing experimentee) gets each answer correct then he moves on to the next pair of questions but if he makes a mistake then he receives an electric shock from the teacher(unknowing experimentee) starting with 15 volts and you increase the shock one step on each error.
Independent variables: Number of teachers in the room and the closeness of authority
Dependent variables: Number of shocks administered, speed of response and the duration of the shock
Procedure steps in order:
In the beginning they were introduced to another participant, who was actually a confederate of Milgram
They were then asked to draw straws to determine their roles (teacher or learner), the confederate was always the learner
They were then placed in different rooms, one for the learner(with an electric chair) and another for teacher and experimenter with the electric shock generator
The learner is then strapped to a chair with electrodes
The teacher is told to give an electric shock every time the learner makes a mistake, increasing the level of shock each time
The learner purposely gave the wrong each time and for each question the learner got wrong, the teacher gave him
I. Participants: May 1962 the experiment is conducted in an elegant interaction laboratory at Yale university, the participants are 40 white males who are between the ages of 20 and 50 who were from the New Haven area
II. Apparatus and materials: Stanley Milgram used a machine( shock generator) to test his theories on obedience, the machine in ascending order had a row of buttons marked to the voltage 1 person would inflict upon another person.The shock generator went from 15 volts to 450 volts and a …show more content…
Basically If the learner(knowing experimentee) gets each answer correct then he moves on to the next pair of questions but if he makes a mistake then he receives an electric shock from the teacher(unknowing experimentee) starting with 15 volts and you increase the shock one step on each error.
Independent variables: Number of teachers in the room and the closeness of authority
Dependent variables: Number of shocks administered, speed of response and the duration of the shock
Procedure steps in order:
In the beginning they were introduced to another participant, who was actually a confederate of Milgram
They were then asked to draw straws to determine their roles (teacher or learner), the confederate was always the learner
They were then placed in different rooms, one for the learner(with an electric chair) and another for teacher and experimenter with the electric shock generator
The learner is then strapped to a chair with electrodes
The teacher is told to give an electric shock every time the learner makes a mistake, increasing the level of shock each time
The learner purposely gave the wrong each time and for each question the learner got wrong, the teacher gave him