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Mind Map by amberbob27, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by amberbob27
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Milgram Study
- Reliability
- Validity
- Setting
- Yale University, New Haven, Conneticut, US
- Yale University, New Haven, Conneticut, US
- Researchers
- Aim
- The aim of the experiment was to investigate
what level of obedience would be shown when
participants were told by an authority figure to
administer electric shocks to another person.
- The aim of the experiment was to investigate
what level of obedience would be shown when
participants were told by an authority figure to
administer electric shocks to another person.
- Context
- Sample
- 40 males aged between 20 and
50 years of age, were recruited
from the New Haven area.
- They were obtained by
responding to a newspaper and
direct mail advertisement which
asked for volunteers to
participate in a study of memory
and learning at Yale University.
- The participants represented a wide
range of occupations, including postal
clerks, high-school teachers, salesmen,
engineers and labourers.
- They were paid $4.50 for their participation in the
experiment but importantly they were told that the
payment was simply for coming to the laboratory,
regardless of what happened after they arrived.
- 40 males aged between 20 and
50 years of age, were recruited
from the New Haven area.
- Method
- Improvements
- Results
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