What Is The Milgram Experiment
Stanley Milgram Journal Assignment Draft
A psychologist named Stanley Milgram created an invention called the shock generator which included thirty different switches that had ranging voltages. The main question of the experiment is “how long will someone continue to give shocks to another person if they are told to do so, even if they thought they could be seriously hurt?” (Milgram Experiment, 2008). Of course to conduct any experiment, you need participants. Stanley Milgram had forty subjects which were all males. According to Milgram they were “recruited via mail and a newspaper ad. They thought they were going to participate in an experiment about ‘memory and learning’” (2008). There were many similarities between the men such as they were “aged between 20 and 50, whose jobs ranged from unskilled to professional, …show more content…
The generator was not real, but after the participants seeing the experimental demonstrate the experiment on a subject, they all believed that when a switch was pressed it caused pain, but in reality it did not. “The subject was instructed to teach word-pairs to the learner. When the learner made a mistake, the subject was instructed to punish the learner by giving him a shock, 15 volts higher for each mistake” (Milgram Experiment, 2008). “A person is labeled a success if she refuses to administer a severe shock, and failure if she administers such shock” (Cetinkaya-Runde, Mine, 2013). The experimenter reminded the subjects that they were held responsible for anything that happened. Stanley Milgram stated “the results that were found is that three of the men had seizures, forty of the men could handle up to 300 volts, and twenty-five of the forty subjects continued to give shocks until the maximum voltage was hit” (2008). Before the experiment was conducted “experts thought that about 1-3 % of the subjects would not stop giving shocks” (Milgram Experiment, 2008), but it turns out the
A psychologist named Stanley Milgram created an invention called the shock generator which included thirty different switches that had ranging voltages. The main question of the experiment is “how long will someone continue to give shocks to another person if they are told to do so, even if they thought they could be seriously hurt?” (Milgram Experiment, 2008). Of course to conduct any experiment, you need participants. Stanley Milgram had forty subjects which were all males. According to Milgram they were “recruited via mail and a newspaper ad. They thought they were going to participate in an experiment about ‘memory and learning’” (2008). There were many similarities between the men such as they were “aged between 20 and 50, whose jobs ranged from unskilled to professional, …show more content…
The generator was not real, but after the participants seeing the experimental demonstrate the experiment on a subject, they all believed that when a switch was pressed it caused pain, but in reality it did not. “The subject was instructed to teach word-pairs to the learner. When the learner made a mistake, the subject was instructed to punish the learner by giving him a shock, 15 volts higher for each mistake” (Milgram Experiment, 2008). “A person is labeled a success if she refuses to administer a severe shock, and failure if she administers such shock” (Cetinkaya-Runde, Mine, 2013). The experimenter reminded the subjects that they were held responsible for anything that happened. Stanley Milgram stated “the results that were found is that three of the men had seizures, forty of the men could handle up to 300 volts, and twenty-five of the forty subjects continued to give shocks until the maximum voltage was hit” (2008). Before the experiment was conducted “experts thought that about 1-3 % of the subjects would not stop giving shocks” (Milgram Experiment, 2008), but it turns out the