Social Psychology Experiments Study
Guide Test.
Milgram's Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology
was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University,
conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal
conscience.
After the holocost Milgram wanted to test peoples obedience.
The learner (a confederate called Mr. Wallace) was taken into a room and had electrodes attached to his
arms, and the teacher and researcher went into a room next door that contained an electric shock
generator and a row of switches marked from 15 volts (Slight Shock) to 375 volts (Danger: Severe Shock)
to 450 volts (XXX).
Milgram wanted to know how far people would go when following orders
65% (two-thirds) of participants (i.e. teachers) continued to the highest level of 450 volts. All the
participants continued to 300 volts.
Conclusion:
Ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extent of killing an
innocent human being. Obedience to authority is ingrained in us all from the way we are brought up.
Asch's Experiment/ Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER Conformity, group size, and cohesiveness. Asch found
that one of the situational factors that influence conformity is the size of the opposing majority. In a
series of studies he varied the number of confederates who gave incorrect answers from 1 to 15.
asked participants which line was bigger (the answer was obvious) students who knew about the
experiment answered incorrectly, those who didnt mostly followed the incorrect response, mostly
dependent on how large the group was. people did not want to be the odd one out
Guide Test.
Milgram's Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology
was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University,
conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal
conscience.
After the holocost Milgram wanted to test peoples obedience.
The learner (a confederate called Mr. Wallace) was taken into a room and had electrodes attached to his
arms, and the teacher and researcher went into a room next door that contained an electric shock
generator and a row of switches marked from 15 volts (Slight Shock) to 375 volts (Danger: Severe Shock)
to 450 volts (XXX).
Milgram wanted to know how far people would go when following orders
65% (two-thirds) of participants (i.e. teachers) continued to the highest level of 450 volts. All the
participants continued to 300 volts.
Conclusion:
Ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extent of killing an
innocent human being. Obedience to authority is ingrained in us all from the way we are brought up.
Asch's Experiment/ Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER Conformity, group size, and cohesiveness. Asch found
that one of the situational factors that influence conformity is the size of the opposing majority. In a
series of studies he varied the number of confederates who gave incorrect answers from 1 to 15.
asked participants which line was bigger (the answer was obvious) students who knew about the
experiment answered incorrectly, those who didnt mostly followed the incorrect response, mostly
dependent on how large the group was. people did not want to be the odd one out
