Milgram - Describe and Evaluate

Yo,

Description: 

Here are the jigsaw tiles for Milgram's description:

If you did not get all of the description done, I would add this to your notes. Remember to have points for the aim, method (a.k.a. procedure), results, conclusion, sample, prompts, and additional info.

Evaluation:

You should have at least 5 evaluation points from the lesson. However, here are some bonus evaluation points you can use:

"The Milgram studies were conducted in laboratory type conditions and we must ask if this tells us much about real-life situations. We obey in a variety of real-life situations that are far more subtle than instructions to give people electric shocks, and it would be interesting to see what factors operate in everyday obedience. The sort of situation Milgram investigated would be more suited to a military context." 

This is a validity issue - Milgram's situation is set up to represent obedience. However, it does not really represent everyday examples of obedience. This point has the PEE structure - identify the parts of the point that are for the Point, Evidence (from the study), and Explanation/Example.

"Milgram’s study cannot be seen as representative of the American population as his sample was self-selected. This is because they became participants only by electing to respond to a newspaper advertisement (selecting themselves). They may also have a typical "volunteer personality" – not all the newspaper readers responded so perhaps it takes this personality type to do so."

This is both a generalisability and validity point (remember, points don't have to exactly fit GRAVE). Milgram's results are not really representative of the American population (G), and volunteer sampling has it's own weakness - volunteers are more likely to comply. This means they are not necessarily behaving as they would and so lowers the validity. This point has the PEE structure - identify the parts of the point that are for the Point, Evidence (from the study), and Explanation/Example.

Both points are taken from the simplypsychology website.

KOP!