1. Would People Still Obey Today?
JERRY BURGER (2009)
Contemporary Study
Would People Still Obey Today?

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Identify the aims, method, procedure, results and conclusions of BURGER 2009
Evaluate the study in terms of strengths and weaknesses (GRAVE)

3. Lesson 1
Identify the aims, method, procedure, results and conclusions of BURGER 2009
Knowledge - this relates to A01 (mark scheme)

4. ABC – Replication of the Milgram study (Burger, 2009)
23.30 (for modelled refusal condition)

5. BURGER RACE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

6. When is the ‘critical moment’ according to Burger?
How many additional safeguards did Burger introduce?
3. Name 4 features that contribute to high rates of obedience
4. What hypothesis did Burger make regarding gender and obedience?
5. What were the 2 personality variables that seem to affect obedience behaviour?
6. Describe the sample
7. How many people were excluded from the first and second screening?
8. True or False. The participant was paid after they signed the consent form
9. How many word pairs were confederates asked to remember
10. What were the two conditions that participants were assigned to?
11. How many participants continued past 150V in the each condition?
12. True or False? Participants with high desire for control tended to show reluctance earlier in the base condition
13. Seeing another person model refuse had a profound effect on obedience levels. True or false?
14. What 5 participant characteristics were examined in this study?
15. What was the aim of Burger’s study?
16. What were the questionnaires measuring in the study?

7. Volunteer sample, 29 men, 41 women, age range 20 - 81
1. When is the ‘critical moment’ according to Burger?
150v
2. How many additional safeguards did Burger introduce? 5
3. Name 4 features that contribute to high rates of obedience
Legitimate authority figure, gradual increase in demands,Limited sources of information in a novel situation, Responsibility not assigned or diffused
4. What hypothesis did Burger make regarding gender and obedience?
8 out of 9 replications using women obedience levels were the same. Burger did not anticipate finding any gender difference
5. What were the 2 personality variables that seem to affect obedience behaviour?
High empathy
High level of control
6. Describe the sample
Volunteer sample, 29 men, 41 women, age range
7. How many people were excluded from the first and second screening?
1. 30% %
8. True or False. The participant was paid after they signed the consent form
False –they were paid before signing
9. How many word pairs were confederates asked to remember 25
10. What were the two conditions that participants were assigned to?
Base condition (same as Milgram)
Modeled refusal condition
11. How many participants continued past 150V in the each condition?
Base 28 (70%)
Modeled refusal 19 (63.3%)
12. True or False? Participants with high desire for control tended to show reluctance earlier in the base condition
TRUE
13. Seeing another person model refuse had a profound effect on obedience levels. True or false?
False – no effect
14. What 5 participant characteristics were examined in this study?
Age, education, ethnicity, gender, personality variables
15. What was the aim of Burger’s study?
To investigate obedience by partially replicating Milgram’s study to examine whether situational factors affect obedience to an authoritative figure
16. What were the questionnaires measuring in the study?
IRI – empathy
BAI – anxiety
DCS – control
BDI - depression

8. EXPERIMENT ONE – BASELINE CONDITION
MILGRAM’S Original study
SAME
BURGER
EXPERIMENT ONE – BASELINE CONDITION

9. Individual task (timed)
Describe Burger’s (2009) study. (8 marks)
A P R C

10. Homework Revise for test on Burger’s study (2009)
Details are very important (e.g. % in results)
Using GRAVE evaluate the study (bullet points not essay)

11. Lesson 2 CODE: AEB6UQEPF Socrative Quiz(checking knowledge) – A01
Using Socrative App
CODE: AEB6UQEPF
Evaluate the study in terms of strengths and weaknesses (GRAVE)
Evaluation GRAVE – A02
Class discussion using notes from the homework task

12. Burger (2009) Evaluation
G wider age range and females however 'self-selecting' sample, all US participants and screened. Is the sample representative of the wider population?
R results from both studies can be compared therefore reliability can be claimed (as it was a replication)
Standardised procedure, instructions, prompts etc. and high level of control therefore can be replicated and tested for reliability
A how can this be applied to real life? Useful for society?
V unnatural setting (lab) therefore? Internal validity? Burger tested many variables to test what affected obedience he had data to help rule out other factors. However, can obedience be explained using other factors (not only situational)? i.e. the experimenter taking responsibility or experiencing something new and therefore looking at the experiment for guidance
E ethically stronger (study was seen as acceptable) however?

13. Evaluate Burger's (2009) study (12 marks)
Remember!
A01 – knowledge I.e. Description (6 marks)
A03- 4 evaluation points (6 marks) Ensure you elaborate and provide evidence from the study in each point. (PEC)