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. Milgram's Original 2
Experiment

Aims

· To see whether individuals follow a direct order from
an
authority ever if it means
doing something life
threathing to another person .



·
To see whether Nazi behaviour in WW2 was due to internal
factors (personality) or external factors (situations.

Procedure

Participants :
-
no us males
aged 20-50
years recruited
were
-
Recruitment was done via a
newspaper advertisement
Las offered $4 5 for part
taking
well as
. .




Apparatus :




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included shock meter multiple choice box,


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Two confederates were
present (one being the
experimeter and the other
leases) .
the
Lots were drawn
lrigged) to decide who would be the
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teacher and who would be the learner -




Teacher helped experimenter strap the learner into the
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electric chair
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Teacher (real participant) was eed to a
different room .
Teacher was ordered to ask word association questions
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and a administer shock for
wrong
a answer .

, 1
.Tran
,
as




If
participant argued about not to deliver the shock
wanting
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,

four
the experimenter was to
give verbal
prods-you must
the
continue
, experiment requires you must continue and
So on

End of experiment each bold shocks
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participant was no

were
given and were debriefed about the
experiment .




Findings
65 % of the the full U50V shock
participants gave
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life threating) &




T

100 % of participants gave atleast 300 shock (intense shock).

of


Es
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participants showed visible signs distress-sweating ,

trembling , stuttering and three of the participants
had full blown seizures.

experienced (moral strain

Conclusions :

US citizen would direct order from
Every follow a an
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experimenter to
carry out life threathing electric
a


Shock
-
Nazi behaviour in WW2 was due to external factors
(situation)
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