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Introduction to Obedience & Milgram's Baseline Study

Introduction to Obedience & Milgram's Baseline Study

Schematic diagram showing Milgram's experimental design: the Experimenter sitting at a desk, the Teacher at a shock generator with voltage labels, and the Learner strapped into a chair on the other side of a wall.

In our everyday lives, we regularly follow instructions from authority figures like teachers, police officers, and managers. While conformity involves yielding to peer pressure, obedience is a direct response to an order from someone of a higher social status.

Obedience Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Obedience

Step-by-step lessons covering AQA A Level Psychology Obedience for A Level Psychology. Each lesson works through exam-style questions in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 format. Start with the compulsory core topics before tackling the more evaluation-heavy optional and issues-and-debates content.

Lessons

ConformityObedienceResistance to social influenceMinority influence