PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee, Informa, Naturalistic Observation
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Stanley midgram conducted a series of experiments to study the phenomenon of obedience to an authority figure. Invited people to participant in a scientific study of memory and learning . Participants reported to milgram"s lab where they met someone dressed in a lab coat and someone named mr. wallace : this person was actually a confederate (i. e an accomplice) of the experimenter but the participant didn"t actually know this. In this study, the scientist, would be the teacher and one would be the learning . It was rigged so that the person would be the teacher and mr. wallace would be the learner. In this study, the person would have to pull levers that would administer shocks to. Mr. wallace: as the levers were pulled, the shock to mr. wallace would increase. 65% of participants would continue to deliver shocks all the way to 450 volts. The belmont report: ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human.
