PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Influence, Diana Baumrind, Moral Reasoning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Tara Mac Donald

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Obedience: changes in behaviour produced by the commands of an authority. Post wwii: people were trying to come to terms with the holocaust. Situation is powerful, dispositional: these people are just monsters. Milgram was interested in conformity (had replicable t the asch studies) but wanted to examine social influence when there were severe consequences. Milgram thought people would be only a small percentage. Parti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts re(cid:272)ruited for a stud(cid:455) o(cid:374) (cid:862)pu(cid:374)ish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863); paid i(cid:374) ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e. All assig(cid:374)ed to (cid:858)tea(cid:272)her(cid:859) role: the (cid:858)lear(cid:374)er(cid:859) (cid:449)as a(cid:374) a(cid:272)tor (cid:894)(cid:272)o(cid:374)federate of the study) Required to administer a shock to the learner when he made an error. Switches ranged form 15 volts (labelled slight) to 450 volts (labelled xxx) The lear(cid:374)er said (cid:862)i guess (cid:455)ou should k(cid:374)o(cid:449) i do ha(cid:448)e a heart (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d the e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ter said (cid:862)that should (cid:271)e oka(cid:455)(cid:863) The experimenter said to the teacher: please continue, the experiment requires you to continue, you have no other choice you must go on.