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Hello students, we are being asked various questions here.
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This one is, how did milgram recruit his sample? milgram recruited his sample through newspaper advertisement.
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Newspaper advertisements and direct mail solicitation and targeting adult male from various occupations and backgrounds in the new haven area.
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Another question asked is, where was the experiment conducted? is this important? the experiment was conducted at yale university and this is important because the prestigious reputation of university may have influenced participants willingness to obey authority figures and trust the legitimacy of the experiment.
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Another question asked is, how did he tell the participants he was testing, teaching and learning? why deceive them? milgram told the participants that he was testing effects of punishment on learning and he deceived them because he wanted to study their obedience to authority and revealing the true purpose of the experiment would have influenced their behavior.
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Another question asked is, why did deception occur in milgram's experiment? deception occurred at several aspects of milgram's experiment.
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Participants were misled about the true purpose of study.
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They were led to believe that the learner was another participant when in fact they were a confederate and they were made to think that they were administering real electric shock when they were.
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Another question is, did the participants have the right to withdraw at any stage of the process? although milgram told participants that they could withdraw from the experiment at any time, the experimenter insisted and frauding made it difficult for them to do so.
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Many participants felt pressured to continue even when they were visibly distressed...