AQA PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 1 2022 Correct Questions & Answers

What is obedience? - ANSWER A form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order from a figure of authority. What was Milgram's (1964) study? - ANSWER Milgram (1964) sought an answer to why such a high proportion of the German population obeyed Hitler's commands to murder over 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and other social groups during WW2. Procedure: 40 US men were given the role of TEACHER through a fixed draw - ordered to administer (fake) electric shocks to LEARNER (confederate) by an EXPERIMENTER, increased by 15 volts with each mistake made on memory task - reaching 450 volts. Findings: no ppts stopped before 300 volts and 65% went all the way to 450 volts. Many showed signs of stress, most objected by continued anyways (qualitative observations). Findings were unexpected - 14 students introspectively predicted that no more than 3% of the participants would continue to 450 volts. Conclusion: 'German people are NOT different' - US ppts obeyed even when they knew they might harm another person. Evaluate Milgram's (1964) study: - ANSWER Ethical issues