Jimmy Carcamo-Campos In experiment 7 of Milgram’s Obedience study, the subjects were initially given instructions by the experimenter. After a short period of time, the experimenter eventually left the lab and proceeded to give instructions to the subject via telephone. This was different from the other experiments before, as the experimenter was always just a few feet away from the subject giving instructions. However, in experiment 7, the experimenter wasn’t physically there at all, which tested the obedience due to proximity of the experimenter (authority). The subjects quickly started to disobey and lie to the experimenter as the instructor insisted that they were to increase the voltages. The subjects resisted the experimenter far better,…show more content… According to the results, the majority of the subjects who stopped participating were at shock level 10 (150 volts), which was 7 (17.5%). The second most participants that stopped was at level 13 (195 volts), which was 5 (12.5%). Level 10 was under the “Strong shock” category while level 13 was under the “Very Strong” category, which shows us that the participants were concerned by the level of shock and empathized, which can be an indicator of why they stopped. In experiment 11 of Milgram’s Obedience study, the subjects were given the freedom and choice to administer the shocks and voltages on their own. This experiment focused mainly on the impulses that the subjects (seemly to be men) when given complete power. The instructor told the participants that they were allowed to “select any shock level on any of the trails” and were told to do 30 critical trials. The learners (those who were getting “shocked”) kept the same reaction to the shock levels as the baseline experiments. The average shock level that was administered was 3.6 throughout the trial. This is lower to the shock level 5, which is when the learners would initially have a response like a
