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Question 1

Define whistle blowing

Answer 1

Involves informing teh appropriate authorities about uinethical practice.

Question 2

Aim

Answer 2

To invetsigate teh rates of disobedienec, obedience and whistleblowing in a situation where no physical violence was allowed but a situatiojn which was ethcially wrong

Question 3

Aim 2

Answer 3

Investaige teh difference between how p0eople think tehy will behave and how they actually behave

Question 4

Aim 3

Answer 4

To see if people who would disobey or whistle bloew woud have different personlitys

Question 5

Pilot Studies

Answer 5

Eight pilot studies were conducted to ensure teh procedure was credible and ethically acceptable

Question 6

Cover story

Answer 6

An exepriment was conduicted on the effects of senosry deprevation on brain function. Six partipants were isolated in a room in order to deprive tehm of tehir senses. All teh partipants panicked and asked for teh experimtnet to stop, it didnt.

Question 7

Procedure

Answer 7

• p’s met with Dutch experimenter who dressed formally and had stern demeanour
• experimenter asked p’s to provide students name w/o reason

Cover Story:

• sensory deprivation
• conducted a study w/ 6 p’s
• people were panicked
• cognitive abilities were impaired w/ visual and auditory hallucinations
• p’s were asked to stop because of strong symptoms
• wanted to replicate study and needed p’s to write a statement convincing students to participate in sensory deprivation study and convince the Resrahc commitee to continue with experiment
• told p’s they would be given money
• p’s had to write a letter using positive adjectives and no negative effects of sensory deprivation
• when p’s moved to 2nd room, found mailbox
• if p’s thought study violated ethical norms, they should challenge it by putting a form in the mailbox
• after 7 minutes, p’s were given 2 personality tests( Decomposed Gamees and HEXACO-PI-R): proved for suspicion and debriefed
• lasted 40 minutes per person

Question 8

Results

Answer 8

3.6% of ps said tehy would obey teh experimneter
31.9% disobedient
Whistleblowers 64.5%

Question 9

Exerperiment results

Answer 9

76. 5% obeyed
77. 1 disobeyed
78. 4% whistleblow

Question 10

Conclusion

Answer 10

People are very obedient

People over estimate the tendency to whistle blow and underestimate the likelihood of obedience