Milgram: Obedience
A-level Psychology
Background
● nazi Germany
● obedience to destructive orders
● dispositional hypothesis: does culture result in higher levels of obedience
● situational hypothesis: social processes between individuals and groups, how the
situation influences our behavior
Aim
● investigate how obedient people are to following orders from a person in
authority which = pain/ harm of another person.
● how many electric shocks would participants administer to a helpless learner
when ordered to by a scientist in a lab?
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A-level Psychology
Background
● nazi Germany
● obedience to destructive orders
● dispositional hypothesis: does culture result in higher levels of obedience
● situational hypothesis: social processes between individuals and groups, how the
situation influences our behavior
Aim
● investigate how obedient people are to following orders from a person in
authority which = pain/ harm of another person.
● how many electric shocks would participants administer to a helpless learner
when ordered to by a scientist in a lab?
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