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1
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What did milgram investigate?

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The affect of 3 situational variables on obedience

2
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Proximity variation

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Teacher and learner in the same room, obedience dropped from 65% to 40%

3
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Touch proximity variation

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Teacher had to force learners hand onto shock plate, obedience fell to 30%

4
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Phone-instruction proximity variation

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Experiment left room and gave instructions through phone, obedience fell to 20%

5
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Location variation

What does this show?

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Held in a run down building rather than Yale uni. Obedience fell to 47%.

Experimenter had less authority in this setting

6
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Uniform variation

What does this show?

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When an ‘ordinary member of the public’ in normal clothes replaces experiment in lab coat obedience falls to 20%

Uniform is a strong authoritative symbol

7
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STRENGTH: bickman study

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Had confederates dress in a suit, a guards uniform and a milkmans. Asked passerbys for parking money. Found twice as many likely to obey guard.

8
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LIMITATION: very contrived

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Orne and holland said demand characteristics are more likely in the variations study due to extra manipulation. Lacks internal validity

9
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STRENGTH: supports cultural differences

Problem with this?

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Miranda found 90% obedience in Spanish students so milgrams findings aren’t limited to US makes.

Can’t conclude that findings apply everywhere as replications have only taken place in western societies

10
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STRENGTH: control of variables

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Only 1 variable changed at a time, shoes cause and effect relationship clearly.