The students were payed actors and the teachers were the subjects, both were in separate rooms and could not see the other. Milgram told the teachers that the students were hooked up to a machine that would send an electric shock to the student when they gave a wrong answer. Milgram also informed the teachers that the experiment was looking at the relationship between pain and learning. In front of the teacher sat a box that had written voltages from 14 to 450. The teacher was assigned to read the student a list of words, and the student was to repeat the first word read to them. If the student got the word wrong, hesitated, or did not give an answer, it was the signal for the teacher to shock the student. After every shock they voltage would increase on the next wrong, hesitant, or silent
The students were payed actors and the teachers were the subjects, both were in separate rooms and could not see the other. Milgram told the teachers that the students were hooked up to a machine that would send an electric shock to the student when they gave a wrong answer. Milgram also informed the teachers that the experiment was looking at the relationship between pain and learning. In front of the teacher sat a box that had written voltages from 14 to 450. The teacher was assigned to read the student a list of words, and the student was to repeat the first word read to them. If the student got the word wrong, hesitated, or did not give an answer, it was the signal for the teacher to shock the student. After every shock they voltage would increase on the next wrong, hesitant, or silent