PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Homeostasis, Facial Symmetry, Stanley Milgram
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Contrary to popular belief, most german citizen were not anti- Intimidation: milgram experiments: milgram obedience experiments: social psychology"s most famous and (by far) most controversial experiment that focused on how obedience can make people do evil things. Stanley milgram reasoned that anybody ordered to harm another person under the guise of authority would obey. Two people are brought into the lab and told by a researcher that they are in an experiment looking at learning after punishment. One becomes the teacher and the other the. In fact, the whole experiment is rigged and only the teacher is the real participant (both the researcher and the learner are actors) The learner is in a room by themselves strapped to a shock generator that shoots electricity to their arm. They must memorize word pairs (e. g. , lemon = rain , bike = bottle , etc. )
