SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dependent And Independent Variables, Bbc Two, Stanley Milgram
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Milgram"s experiment: research question: how willing are people to obey authority, even if the instruction goes against the conscience, sample group randomly selected from the population, sample bias random sample. Milgram experiment settings: teacher = subject, learner = actor. *could hear but not see each other: shocks increased by an increment of 15 volts per wrong answer, labels: slight shock, moderate shock, strong shock, very strong shock, intense shock, extreme intense shock, danger: severe shock, and xxx (450 volts) Example lesson in milgram experiment: word pair: bird-dog (recall last word, list: bird-cat-mouse-dog-giraffe, incorrect answer = electric shock by increase of 15 volt shock, 75 volts (grunts), 150 (complain), 150-285 (ask to be released, pleading more intensely, to agonizing screams), 330+ (silence) Authority - obedience: not personally responsibility (not an agent, verbal nudge: please continue . You have no other choice, you must go on.
