... a learner and one a teacher, lots were drawn but rigged by the researcher so the learner was always Mr Wallace and the teacher the real subject. Mr Wallace was taken to an adjoining room and strapped into a chair and electrodes were placed all over his body, the subject was shown a shock generator which he was informed could deliver shocks of increasing severity from 15 volts to 450 volts. To demonstrate this the participant was given a test shock from a battery. The participant was instructed to ask questions to Mr Wallace and when he gave a wrong answer the participant was told to administer an electric shock, with each incorrect answer the shocks increased in severity. As the real reason was to test whether people would obey authority the researcher had some verbal prods to push the participants further when they started to feel anxious, as well as this pre ...

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