Notes

SLIDE 2:
After 3: These three people filled three distinct roles: the Experimenter (an authoritative role), the Teacher (a role intended to obey the orders of the Experimenter), and the Learner (the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher)
After 4: The actor would always claim to have drawn the slip that read "learner", which guaranteed that the subject would always be the "teacher"

Slide 3:
The "teacher" and "learner" were separated into different rooms where they could communicate but not see each other
The "teacher" was then given a list of word pairs that he was to teach the learner. The teacher began by reading the list of word pairs to the learner. The teacher would then read the first word of each pair and read four possible answers. The learner would press a button to indicate his response.
If the answer was incorrect, the teacher would administer a shock to the learner, with the voltage increasing in 15-volt increments for each wrong answer. If correct, the teacher would read the next word pair.
Subjects believed that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual shocks. In reality, there were no shocks. What happened was after being separated, the actor set up a tape recorder integrated with the electroshock generator which played pre recorded sounds for each shock level.
After a number of voltage-level increases, the actor started to bang on the wall that separated him from the subject. After several times banging on the wall and complaining about his heart condition, all responses by the learner would cease.
At this point, many people indicated their desire to stop the experiment and check on the learner.
If at any time the subject indicated his desire to halt the experiment, he was given a succession of verbal prods by the experimenter, in this order:
Please continue.
The experiment requires that you continue.
It is absolutely essential that you continue.
You have no other choice, you must go on.
If the subject still wished to stop after all four successive verbal prods, the experiment was halted. Otherwise, it was halted after the subject had given the maximum 450-volt shock three times in succession.