PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Institutional Review Board, American Psychological Association, Belmont Report
29 May 2013
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He placed an ad in the local newpaper in new haven, connectitut, offering to pay . 50 to men to participate in a scientific study of memory and learning. The scientist explained that the study would examine the effects of punishment on learning. One person would be a teacher who would administer the punishmentand the other would be the learner. Mr wallace was always the learner and the volunteer was always the teacher. The scientist attached electrodes to mr wallace and placed the teacher in front of an impressive looking shock machine. The first leveller was labeled 15 volts, the second 30 volts, the third 45 v, and so on up to 450 volts. Everytime mr. wallace made a mistake with the word pairs, the teacher was to deliver a shock as punishment. About 65% of the participants continued to deliver shocks all the way to 450 volts.
