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Post by miluska7 on Oct 20, 2017 19:18:38 GMT
Yes, I believe that the Milgram study was an experiment, as there was a low degree of freedom for the participant and it was conducted in a controlled environment. The independent variable of the study was the physical closeness of the authority figure (researcher) to the participant in the role of "teacher". The dependent variable of the study was the compliance of the "teacher" participant to the instructions of the authority figure to electrically shock the actor in the role of "student", even if this was not something that they internally accepted (due to a lacking in morality when the shocks were increased to uncomfortable levels) in order to do the job that they believed they were assigned by the authority figure. I believe the Zimbardo study, although it was also supposed to be an experiment, was a failed experiment, as there was too much of a high degree of freedom given to the prisoners assigned the role of "guard", and due to the fact that the researchers lost the controlled environment they had simulated and were also subject to a lacking in researcher ethics. The independent variable in this study was the positions of either "prisoner" or "guard" that the participants were assigned to, and the dependent variable was the behaviour exhibited by both groups in response to the given roles.
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