in front of an instrument panel in a separate room, the teacher administered an electric shock of increasing intensity to the learner for any memory errors. Milgram provided a detailed description that left little doubt that the shock and intensity administered was the result of the teacher’s manipulation of this device. Unbeknownst to the teacher, the learner was part of the trial and responded to the shocks in an increasingly agonizing display. Milgram’s findings, which directly contradicted
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participant).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). Stanley Milgram is a Yale University social psychologist who wrote “Behavioral Study of Obedience”, an article which granted him many awards and is now considered a landmark
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Comments on FUTURE SHOCK C. P. Snow: "Remarkable ... No one ought to have the nerve to pontificate on our present worries without reading it." R. Buckminster Fuller: "Cogent ... brilliant ... I hope vast numbers will read Toffler's book." Betty Friedan: "Brilliant and true ... Should be read by anyone with the responsibility of leading or participating in movements for change in America today." Marshall McLuhan: "FUTURE SHOCK ... is 'where it's at.'" Robert Rimmer, author of The Harrad Experiment:
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be shown when participants were told by a figure of authority to deliver electric shocks to another person. Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities such as some of the acts carried out by Germans in WWII. The participant took the role of ‘teacher’, also present was the ‘learner’ who was in on the deception and knew that they would not receive any real shocks and the experimenter. The ‘teacher’ was told that the ‘learner’, who was in another
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SHOCK, SURGICAL INFECTIONS & TRAUMA Choose the best answer: 1) More commonly, wound infections following surgery become evident on: A. Between third and fifth day B. Between eight and eleventh day C. Between first and third day D. Between fourth and seventh day E. Between twelfth and sixteenth day 2) The following is an example of Class III surgical wound: A. Urinary bladder surgery B. Herniorrhaphy
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conditions would different people obey to authority under. The participants were deceived into thinking they would be emitting electric shocks, to inflict pain onto an individual when they gave a wrong answer to a question; the question being a word matching query. The participant here played the role of a teacher and the learner in this case was in fact the confederate. The shock meter went up in pain voltages as the experiment went on and more wrong answers were issued. However, there was no real pain being
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teacher (the real participant) was taken into a room next door which contained the electric shock generator, with a row of switches marked from 15 volts to 450 volts. 450 Volts was the most dangerous shock a learner could get. The teacher did not know that this was false, they thought that the learner was the actual participant being experimented on and that the shock generator would actually give them a real shock. Each participant were told to read out pairs of words that the learner had to remember
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The naïve participants were instructed to give electric shocks to another individual, who was the learner, the learner was the confederate but the naïve participant was unaware of this. Each shock would be increased by 15 volts each time a learner would give an incorrect answer to a question. But, no electric shocks were actually given (with the exception of one administered to the real participant to deceive them into thinking the shock machine actually worked). By giving clear indications of distress
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PART I. Validity and Reliability Max score part I: 2 pts A lecturer has designed an exam about research methodology to measure and test the knowledge of third-years students about the design and quality of research. What is the problem with the following situations. Discuss for the following questions whether this is a reliability problem and/or a validity problem. In the case of the latter give the type of validity problem and EXPLAIN BRIEFLY. 1. Some students had too little time to do their exam
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The naïve participants were instructed to give electric shocks to another individual, who was the learner, the learner was the confederate but the naïve participant was unaware of this. Each shock would be increased by 15 volts each time a learner would give an incorrect answer to a question. But, no electric shocks were actually given (with the exception of one administered to the real participant to deceive them into thinking the shock machine actually worked). By giving clear indications of distress
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