SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Milgram Experiment, Research Question, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Find video called: how violent are you bbc, 2009. Sociological research methods: research cycle, milligram experiments, bbc: how violent are you? . Research cycle: formulate a question, review existing literature, select method, collect data, analyze data, report results. Stanley milgram"s experiments on obedience to authority (1961) Sample group randomly selected from the population. The subjects were told that the research was on learning. Given slips of paper to determine who would play what role- both slips of paper said teacher. Actor would lie and say, oh i"m the learner . Subject had to be teacher, split off into 2 rooms they could talk but not see each other. Teacher gave learner a series of questions, teacher was told to give student shock for wrong answer. Shocks increase by an increment of 15 volts per wrong answer. Actual student was not receiving shock, but to make it seem authentic, research subject was given very weak shock at the beginning.
