PSYB01H3 Chapter 3: B01 CH3c.pdf
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Stanley milgram conducted a series of experiments to study the phenomenon of obedience to authority. He placed an ad in the newspaper offering to pay . 50 to males to participate in a study of memory and learning . In reality, it was an experiment to see how much of a shock participants would administer to mr. wallace (the learner ) when he got a question wrong because they were told to by authority. When the teachers shocked mr. wallace with about 120 volts, mr. wallace began screaming in pain and eventually yelled that he wanted out. This is what happened they became visibly upset by the pain mr. Wallace was experiencing, but the scientist urged them to continue using a specific series of verbal prods. Approximately 65% of the participants continued to deliver shocks all the way to 450volts. This study received a great deal of publicity and has been applied to many instances, such as the holocaust.
