The obedience research conducted by Stanley Milgram is one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted.Explain,in detail,the method that Milgram used in the basic version of his study.What were the results?

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The Answer is Participants are told the study is about the effects of punishment on memory.They,and the other participant (who is actually a confederate,although the real participants don't know that),a friendly middle-aged man,draw slips of paper in order to determine who will play the role of 'teacher' and who will be the 'learner.' The draw is rigged so that the real subjects are always the teacher (but again,they don't know that).
The teacher's job is to read a series of word pairs to the learner,and then to test him on his memory of the word pairs.The learner will be in a separate room hooked up to an electric shock machine.Each time the learner gets an answer wrong,the teacher is to administer a shock,by flipping a switch on a panel in front of him,and increasing the voltage after each wrong answer.The switches go up by 15 volts until reaching a maximum of 450 volts,which is labeled "xxx." This process is watched by an "experimenter" wearing a lab coat.
As the experiment progresses,the learner starts to make sounds of discomfort in the other room,grunting audibly as he is shocked.By 150 volts he is protesting loudly and saying that he no longer wants to continue in the study.If the subjects continue reading the word pairs and increasing the shock level,the learner gets to the point of screaming in pain,demanding and pleading,over and over again,to be let out,pleading that he can't take it anymore,even that his heart condition is bothering him and his heart is acting up.And then,at 330 volts,the learner falls silent and gives no further responses.If subjects still continue at this point,they are informed by the experimenter that a non-response is to be considered "wrong," and the punishing shock administered.
If,at any point,subjects express concern for the learner,or say that they don't want to continue,the experimenter simply says a few stock responses,such as,"Please continue" or,"The experiment requires that you continue."
Milgram's results were astounding...every single participant continued to administer 'shocks' after this point in the experiment.The command of the authority figure was so compelling they could not say no.Although Milgram was able to reduce the obedience rates by having the experimenter wear street clothes,doing the experiment in a warehouse,and having the orders delivered over the telephone,people still obeyed the experimenter even when they believed they were harming other people.

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