PSYC 3430 Final: Chapter 8 9 11

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3430
• Professor: Peter Papadogiannis

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Commonplace practice: coach demanding obedience from his/her athletes, a vp demanding that deadlines be met, board members and extraordinary effects of power. Analyzed power by creating small groups in his laboratory at yale university specifically, looked at how cooperative people are willing to be when responding to the request of an authority. Milgram wanted to determine if there was a specific personality that would be more willing to comply with orders from an authority. Psychiatrists predicted that only a fraction of 1% would go to the highest voltage, and most subjects would stop at 150v, milgram agreed. Of the 40 individuals, 26 (65%) of them administered the full 450 volts. None broke off before the 300-v level, Voice-feed(cid:271)a(cid:272)k (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374), the lea(cid:396)(cid:374)e(cid:396)"s shouts a(cid:374)d pleas (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e hea(cid:396)d th(cid:396)ough the (cid:449)all: these cues did not substantially reduce the level of obedience (62. 5% still obeyed to 450.