PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nuremberg Code, Canadian Psychological Association, Stanley Milgram
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Stanley milgram conducted serious of experience to study the phenomenon of obedience to an authority igure. Invited people to paricipant in a scieniic study of memory and learning . Paricipants reported to milgram"s lab where they met someone dressed in a lab coat and someone named mr. wallace : this person was actually a confederate (i. e an accomplice) of the experimenter but the paricipant didn"t actually know this. In this study, the scienist, would be the teacher and one would be the learning . It was rigged so that the person would be the teacher and mr. wallace would be the learner. In this study, the person would have to pull levers that would administer shocks to mr. wallace: as the levers were pulled, the shock to mr. wallace would increase. 65% of paricipants would coninue to deliver shocks all the way to 450 volts. In canada, researchers and insituions adhere to tri-council policy statement: ethical conduct for research involving humans.
