... psychiatrists before carrying out his studies, though it may have been more judicious to consult a cross section of the general public, the type of people who would make up his participants. Deception Milgram's participants were grossly deceived, they believe that they actually were administrating electric shocks to a randomly chosen learner. In fact the learner was a confederate of Milgram's, Mr.Wallace and he did not receive any electric shocks, he was not even in the room, what the participant believed to be the cries and protests of this man was merely a tape recording. Milgram used many cunning deceptions to make the experiment seem more realistic. He rigged the lot drawing of teacher and learner so it was always Mr. Wallace who was elected the learner, he gave the teacher a test shock so they could understand what the learner was going through, he also led the participant to believe ...

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