BF290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Syphilis, Intellectual Disability, Dementia
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There were various shocks involved with a large range starting with 15volts. Found that majority of people would continue on to shock to the highest volts. 65% gave the maximum number of volts. Found that with pressure from the doctors people would continue to shock others. Participants entered the lab smiling without having any issues. Within twenty minutes many were very unhappy. Many even offered to give back the money that they were given to complete the study. Almost everyone had to be egged on to continue going. Milgram defended use of deception: the benefits outweighed the costs, deception was necessary for the experiment to work, telling them the truth afterward(debriefing) negated any negative effects. Offi(cid:272)ial title: (cid:862)tuskegee tud(cid:455) of u(cid:374)treated (cid:455)philis i(cid:374) the negro male(cid:863: purpose: to study the natural progression of syphilis in black men, participants were 600 black men, 399 with syphilis, 201 without.
