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Post by felicia on Oct 18, 2017 20:08:57 GMT
Milgram's study would be considered an experiment. The independent variable would be the proximity of someone in authority to the participant/teacher. While the dependent variable is the amount of compliance to what the authority figure was asking the participant to do. In this case, to administer shocks to a student/confederate to completion of a memory test. The volts were meant to reach dangerous amounts and was made to seem like it could seriously harm the student.
In my opinion Zimbardo's study was supposed to be a non-experimental study because he was observing his participants who he randomly assigned to prisoner/guard roles. The study did happen in a man-made prison but the actual methods would be observation since there was nothing truly being manipulated to consider it a laboratory experiment.
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amrita
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Post by amrita on Oct 25, 2017 20:19:38 GMT
can you think of any controlled variables that were in either of these studies? good explanation
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