A Summary Of The Milgram Shock Experiment

1. The Milgram Shock Experiment was made after the Holocaust. Milgram, the man who invented this experiment, wanted to see if the participant in this test would obey an authority figure. Much as the Nazis did in the holocaust, and listened to every order Hitler demanded, even after many Nazis knew it was morally wrong.

So, to test this, they had two people, one person would be giving shocks to the other under the orders of Milgram. In order to receive these shocks the person had to incorrectly answer a pattern of words the tester had to previously memorize. The experimenter wanted to see if the participant would go until he said to stop, and if they would obey an authority figure no matter if it meant hurting someone. During this experiment the person getting the test done was, in fact, not getting shocked what so ever. But, the participant was not informed of this. They had a recording of the

A similar study that relates to The Milgram Experiment is The Dutch Study. Meeus and Raaijmakers, the inventors, study included an experimenter, the actual participant, and a confederate who was presented as being a job applicant. The participants were told by the experimenter to disturb the applicant as he was taking a test. Also, they were told if the job applicant failed the test he would become unemployed. The experimenter instructed that the participant make fifteen stress remarks to be detrimental to the job applicant 's performance. Now, if participants refused, they were given a series of four prods, similar to those in The Milgram Experiment. A control group was also added, and given the instructions to make negative remarks, but they were not told on how many. The result of The Dutch Study was, 91% of the experimental group made all fifteen remarks. But, none of the control group made it to all fifteen. Like Milgram, the participants did not like what they were doing, and gave much of the responsibility of what happened to the job applicant to the