PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Krypto, Ethology, Social Learning Theory
17 Jun 2018
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Chapter 14 Part 2: Social Behaviour
Obedience
• Obedience: Conformity to the demands of an authority figure
• Milgas “tud:
o Two subjects in this study:
▪ Subject 1 –Teacher (actual participant)
▪ Subject 2 -Learner (actually an actor)
Milgas “tud BBC
• Milgram’s Study:
o Teacher asks questions to the learner
o Teacher shocks learner for each wrong answer (wrong word pair)
o Severity of shocks increase with each wrong answer
o If teahe potests, Milga tells the Please otiue o The epeiet
requires that ou otiue
o Dependent variable: Milgram measures how severely the teacher is willing to
shock the learner, before refusing walking out of the study
Milgas Epeiet
• At the 300 volt level, the learner screams and pounds on the wall
• After 300 volts, the learner does not respond (so is presumably dead or unconscious)
Results and Conclusion
• 65% of teahe sujets otiued shokig the leae all the a to 450 volts (the
highest shock) even after the learner stopped responding altogether
• Normal humans are willing to perform extremely horrible acts in order to be obedient to
an authority figure.
• Iage: ‘esults of Milgas oediee epeiet. Ol a ioit of sujets efused
to provide shocks, even at the most extreme intensities. The first substantial drop in
obedience occurred at the 300-volt level
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Document Summary
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